Elie Chouillard, MD PhD

Designated by CAPITAL among the most influential surgeons in France

Elie CHOUILLARD is a world-know surgeon specialized in: Obesity surgery since 1998: 

Head of the CSO ILE-DE-FRANCE OUEST (Centre Spécialisé en Obésité, one of only 4 such highly specialized centers in the Paris Area).

-	Endoscopic metabolic surgery (Overstitch technology, Bariclip, balloons, Aspire, Pose, etc.)
-	Sleeve Gastrectomy (including pioneering scarless, single port techniques since 2007)
-	Gastric plications (First case in France performed in 2011)
-	One anastomosis gastric Bypass (co-author of the YOMEGA trial, published in the Lancet in 2019)
-	Roux en Y Gastric Bypass (including pioneering scarless, single port techniques since 2007)
-	Duodenal Switch
-	Single Anastomosis Duodeno-intestinal shunt (SADIs)
-	Highly specialized in metabolic and bariatric surgery complications (referral center for many centers in the GULF AREA and CENTRAL EUROPE). 
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Elie CHOUILLARD has been conducting many research programs and is credited numerous achievements in his domain:

•	Research on Mini-invasive endoscopic surgery and through the natural orifices.
•	In vivo Tissue Engineering (replacement of the segments of the digestive tract by aortic Allografts)
•	Women's health and obesity (multi-institutional cohort study, University Paris Versailles/ Saint-Quentin)
•	New trends in obesity surgery techniques.
•	Biological behavioral of adipocytes in human obesity.
•	Intraperitoneal Hyperthermic Chemotherapy (HIPEC) in digestive and ovarian cancers.
•	First world model of porcine artery-intestinal anastomosis
•	Feasibility of the prophylactic HIPEC by laparoscopy in patients with locally advanced digestive cancers.
•	NOTES Total Mesorectal Excision (TME) for cancer.
•	Standardized NOTES & single port procedures (colorectal surgery, Bariatrics).
•	Development of a functional intestinal model of aortic replacement
•	Tissue engineering for the replacement of the digestive sphincters