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Best Gastric band doctors in Vienna: TOP 2 doctors

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Philipp Riss

  • 4.6 Excellent • 18 reviews
  • 21 years of experience
  • accreditations:
  • Austria, Vienna, Vienna General Hospital (AKH)

  • Dr. Philipp Riss is the Team Leader in Surgical Endocrinology at the Medical University of Vienna. He specializes in general and visceral surgery. Dr. Riss earned his Doctorate in Medicine in 2005. He is a Senior Physician and a University Professor. He leads the Surgical Endocrinology Working Group. Dr. Riss has also organized several major international congresses.

    He has received the Venia Docendi Award and the Sandoz Award for Thyroid Research. Dr. Riss is a member of leading societies, such as the European Society of Endocrine Surgeons and the International Society of Surgery. He also serves on advisory boards for neuroendocrine and endocrine surgery in Austria.

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Gerhard Prager

  • 4.6 Excellent • 18 reviews
  • accreditations:
  • Austria, Vienna, Vienna General Hospital (AKH)

  • Professor Prager has performed over 3,000 bariatric surgeries, specializing in obesity treatment at Vienna General Hospital.

    • Head of the Obesity Outpatient Clinic at Vienna General Hospital
    • President of the IFSO-European Chapter
    • Member of the American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery
    • Leads the Metabolic Surgery Center at Confraternitaet Private Hospital
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Gerhard Prager
Bariatric surgery for obesitySpecializes in bariatric surgeries with over 3,000 procedures. President of IFSO-European Chapter and member of top obesity surgery organizations.
Vienna General Hospital (AKH)
Austria
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