Date: 10th, April 2019.  
Source: The First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University

The International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders -Asia Pacific Chapter met in Guangzhou for the first time from March 21 to 23. Specialists in obesity and metabolic disorders conducted academic discussions, communication and studies on treating obesity in the Asia-Pacific region to achieve the goals of Inheritance, Innovation, Standardization and Improvement.

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During the meeting, the federation's chairman, Prof. Almino Cardoso Ramos, announced that Prof. Wang Cunchuan of JNU's First Affiliated Hospital had been elected chairman-designate of the Asia-Pacific chapter and would officially take up the chairmanship in two years. He is the first chairman from mainland China since the organization was founded in 2008.

Wang said he would concentrate on minimally invasive weight-loss surgery to help more people recover from obesity and promote the establishment of weight-loss surgery norms and the steady development in the field.

Elected every two years, the chairman-designate must be the most authoritative professor in the weight-loss field in his country, the chairman of the domestic authoritative organization, and the executive member of the IFSO Asia-Pacific region. Wang's election means Chinese efforts on obesity and metabolic surgery have gained international recognition and will continue to expand the global influence of Chinese medical practitioners in this field.

The Asia-Pacific branch, one of the five branches (the others are North America, South America, Europe, and Middle East and Africa), is currently chaired by Prof. Kazunori Kasama of Tohoku University in Japan.