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Eric Joel Demaria

Eric Joel Demaria MD, FASMBS

Surgery, Bariatric Surgery
Greenville, North Carolina, United States of America

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Dr. Eric DeMaria is a President of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. He is newly appointed Chief of General and Bariatric Surgery Division at East Carolina University. He worked as a Bariatric Surgeon with Bon Secours In Virginia. Previously, he served as Director of 2 major University Weight Loss Surgery programs at Duke and at Virginia Commonwealth University.

DeMaria trained 30 bariatric surgeons as a Bariatric Fellowship Director. He has spoken at countless conferences and published 129 articles, 30 book chapters, and 6 books. In 2007, he was invited to write a review of Bariatric Surgery for the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine. He developed and validated one of the first mortality risk scores for bariatric surgery (Obesity Surgery Mortality Risk Score). He served as Scientific Program Chair for IFSO and has been a guest speaker at the Brazilian Bariatric Society and the Mexican General Surgery Congress. In 2010 he has honored by-election to the American Surgical Association.
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