LAP-BAND: Dr. Favretti

Franco Favretti, M.D.

E-mail:
ffavret@obesitylapband
surgery.com

Profile
Date of Birth: December 20, 1948
Birthplace: Italy (Agordo-BL)
1973 M.D., University of Padua, Italy
1973–1978 General surgery training at the University Hospital of Padua
1978 Qualified general surgeon
1979–1984 Benefited from additional training in thoracic surgery at the University Hospitals of Padua and Trieste
1984 Qualified thoracic surgeon
1984–1991 Associate professor of surgery at Padua University
1992–1998 Head of surgery at Belluno Regional Hospital, Belluno, Italy
1997 Member of the American Society For Bariatric Surgery
1998 Head of surgery at Vicenza Regional Hospital, Vicenza, Italy

Experience

Performed obesity (bariatric) surgery as early as 1983 (vertical banded gastroplasty)

Received specific obesity surgery training at Iowa University with Dr. E. Mason

Performed laparoscopic surgery as early as June 1991

Developed and standardized the surgical technique for the laparoscopic application of gastric banding (LAP-BAND) with Dr. Guy-Bernard Cadiere in September 1993. The technique has been adopted worldwide by most surgeons using the LAP-BAND

Experienced in laparoscopic gastric surgery (over 400 patients operated upon with excellent results) and laparoscopic functional surgery of the stomach (Nissen fundoplicatio)

Regularly performs live procedures in front of audiences in the following cities:
    Italy Padua, Florence, Bologna, Naples, Rome, Genoa
    Spain Madrid, Barcelona
    U.S.A. New Orleans
    Mexico Mexico City, Monterrey
    Venezuela Caracas
    Switzerland Lugano, Zurich
    France Strasbourg, Nice
    Belgium Brussels

Teaches at the European University of Laparoscopic Surgery, Strasbourg, France (Pr. Marescaux) and the Italian School of Laparscopic Surgery

Organized 15 international workshops where over 120 surgeons worldwide were given "hands-on" training on the laparotomic and laparoscopic application of LAP-BAND

Has given over 120 lectures worldwide

Published more than 160 medical articles in journals around the world including the British Journal of Surgery, Surgical Endoscopy, Obesity Surgery, Journal de Coelio-Chirurgie, Surgical Laparoscopy & Endoscopy, International Surgery, Hepato-Gastroenterology

Hospitals
Dr. F. Favretti, along with other ILOST surgeons, works at the Vicenza Regional Hospital in Vicenza, Italy, as well as the Obesity Center of the University of Padua. Both hospitals provide up-to-date facilities and equipment.

Contact
Surgical Department, Vicenza Regional Hospital
Unita' Locale Socio-Sanitaria N. 6
36100 Vicenza, Italy

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