Paul O'Brien Bariatric Surgeon M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S.

Paul O'Brien is Emeritus Professor of Surgery at Monash University after a 19 year period as Head of the University's Department of Surgery at the Alfred Hospital. His current principal areas of clinical and research interest are in the morbidity of obesity and the health benefits of weight loss.

He is Past President of the Obesity Surgery Society of Australia and New Zealand (1997 - 2004) and a member of Council of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Obesity Surgery".

He chairs the Medical Devices Evaluation Committee (MDEC) of the Therapeutic Goods Administration of the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing.

He has published more than 180 papers in the medical literature and has been active in conducting postgraduate courses and workshops on obesity and its treatments in Australia, USA, Asia-Pacific countries, South America and Canada.