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Francisco Schlottmann received his medical degree with honors at the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina. He then completed his general surgery residency at the Hospital Alemán of Buenos Aires. After his surgical training, Dr. Schlottmann completed the Soudavar fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, focusing his research on esophageal cancer. He then did a 2-year gastrointestinal surgery fellowship at the University of North Carolina, focusing his clinical and research activities on foregut disorders. Dr. Schlottmann obtained his Master of Public Health at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health. He also completed a 1-year Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery Fellowship at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He currently serves as Clinical Instructor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and as Affiliate Professor of Surgery at the Hospital Alemán of Buenos Aires with an active clinical and research interest in esophageal disorders, gastroesophageal reflux disease, obesity, esophageal cancer, and gastric cancer.

Dr. Schlottmann has published over 200 journal articles, and has written over 40 book chapters.

Fernando Herbella obtained his MD, residence in General Surgery, Residence in Gastrointestinal Surgery, MSc, PhD and is Associate Professor, Attending Surgeon, at the Department of Surgery, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo - Brazil. He did a fellowship in physiology and surgery of the esophagus at the University of California, San Francisco under DR. Marco Patti and at the University of Rochester under Dr. Jeffrey Peters. His interest is in the physiology and surgery of the foregut.



Marco G. Patti was born and raised in Catania, Italy. He graduated from the University of Catania, School of Medicine in 1981. Between1983 and 1986 he did research at the University of California San Francisco, studying gastrointestinal physiology (Dr. Carlos Pellegrini and Dr.