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Dr. Bruno Dillemans

General & obesity surgeon

Dr. Dillemans

CV Dr Dillemans

°27th of January 1961

Proffessional address:
Department of General Surgery
A.Z. St.–Jan AV
Ruddershove, 10
B-8000 Brugge (Belgium)
Tel: + 32 (0)50 45 25 60 (Secr.)
Fax: + 32 (0)50 45 25 71 (Secr.)
E-mail: algemene.heelkunde@azsintjan.be

Education

Medical studies

  • 1979- 1986: Catholic University of Leuven , Graduated ‘Magna cum Laude'

Specialisation in General Surgery

  • 1986 - 1990: Heilig Hart Hospital, Roeselare
  • 1990 - 1992: University Hospital, Leuven

Super Specialisation in Abdominal and Laparoscopic Surgery:

1992 - 1994: Academic Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands

Surgical and Professional activities

  • Since July 2011: Chief of Staff of the Department of General Surgery
    A.Z. Sint-Jan Brugge - Oostende AV, campus Bruges (1200 beds)
  • Since 1994: Staff member of the Department of General Surgery
    A.Z. Sint-Jan Brugge - Oostende AV, campus Bruges

Facts and Figures

  • 1.500 bariatric procedures a year
  • 25% conversional procedures
  • Performed the first Laparoscopic Gastric Bypasses in:
    • Sultanate of Oman(Royal Hospital,Muscat) in 2006
    • United Arab Emirates (University Hospital, Al Ain) in 2005

Certificats

  • Appointed as ‘Center of Excellence’ by Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic and Allergan
  • Expert in Digestive Surgery for IRCAD (Strasbourg)
  • Expert in Advanced Bariatric Surgery for Johnson & Johnson and Covidien
  • Opinion Leader in Revisional Surgery for Allergan

Teaching and education

  • Course director 15th Internatinal B.E.S.T. Congress, December 5-6, 2018
  • Course director 10th International B.E.S.T. Congress, December 9-10, 2013
  • Active participation at different teaching programs and postgraduate courses (SOSB, BGES, IRCAD) for residents and general surgeons
  • Monthly teaching of international surgeons through Clinical Immersions (Medtronic), EMEA and Side-by-side (Johnson & Johnson)
  • Course Director of Allergan Revisional Surgery Course (4 courses/year)
  • Commitment with several fellows a year to visit him and learn the skills
  • Course director of the international meeting ‘Master Class in Gastric Bypass’ in 2006

Oral presentations and invited expert

  • Oral and video presentations at IFSO, EAES, OESO, EUROSURGERY, IRCAD
  • Invited expert at following congresses:
    • BeSOMS winter symposium 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
    • International Scientific-Practical Course <<Revisional Bariatric surgery>>, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 2018, 2019
    • Club Coelio 2016 - 2015
    • BOMSS 2016 - 2015 - 2014 - 2010
    • 14th Annual Surgery of the Foregut - 2nd Annual International Congress of Fluorescent Guided Imaging Surgery, Cleveland, February 2015 - Oral presentation part 1 - part 2
    • Revision Bariatric Surgery – The Failed or Complicated Band, Australia, November 29 – December 2, 2013
    • Decision making in bariatric surgery, Rome, October 24-26, 2013
    • SOFCCO, 2013, 2012
    • AEC Sevilla, 2012
    • European and World Congress of IFSO, 2008-2019
    • AIMS Milano, 2009-2011
    • The International Obesity Surgery Expert Meeting, Saalfelden, Austria, 2007-2011
    • The International Thematic Days of CHL,Luxembourg, 2007, 2009, 2013
    • 1st Colchester Metabolic SurgerySymposium,UK, 2008
    • 2nd General Surgery Congress,Turkey, 2007
    • 1st  Laparo-Endoscopic Congress for the Middle East,Dubai, 2006

Live Surgery  

  • IV International Congress of Metabolic Surgery Lusiadas Lisbon, Portugal, June 2022
  • AIS chanel, March 9 2021, January 16 2020, March 7 2019
  • 2nd International Conference & Workshop on Revisional Bariatric Surgery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, May 31st – June 1st 2019
  • 15th International BEST Congress, Bruges, Belgium, December 2018
  • Meeting the experts 2018, Rio de Janeiro, April 2018
  • 14th International BEST Congress, Lisboa, Portugal, December 2017
  • IRCAD Laparoscopic and endoluminal bariatric&metabolic surgery, Strasbourg, Frankrijk, December 2017
  • 5th National & 3rd Mediterranean Congress for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders, Antalya, Turkey, October 2017
  • 6th International Sleeve Gastrectomy Conference @IFSO World London August 2017
  • European Surgical Institute, Hamburg, Germany, April 2017
  • International Scientific-Practical Course << Revisional Surgery >>, Saint-Petersbrug, Russia, April 2017
  • 13th AIS Live Streaming Congress, Barcelona, Spain, March 2017
  • 13th International Best Congress, Napoli, Italy, December 2016
  • Ircad Laparoscopic and endoluminal bariatric & metabolic surgery, Strasbourg, France, December 2016
  • 8th Frankfurter Meeting, Frankfurt, Germany, November 2016
  • 6th BOMSS Spring Symposium at Homerton, UK, May 2016
  • Moscow International Bariatric Congress, Moscow, April 2016
  • Conversion band into RNY, Sevilla, Spain, February 2016
  • Telementoring session Naharia City Israel, May 2015
  • 17th SECO Congress, Vitoria Spain, May 2015
  • 5th BOMSS Spring Symposium, Homerton University Hospital, London UK, May 2015
  • 8thObesity Symposium, Norderstedt Germany, March  2015
  • Telementoring session Israël, March 2015
  • 2nd annual GOSS Meeting, Dubai, December 2014
  • SICOB meeting, Napels, May 2014
  • 10th International B.E.S.T. Meeting, December, 2013
  • Liège Live Surgical Day, November, 2013
  • European School of Laparoscopic Surgery, Brussels, November 2013
  • IFSO Istanbul, August 2013
  • NIA Symposium, Rome, February 2013
  • European School of Laparoscopic Surgery, Brussels, 2012
  • 5th Course on Surgery for Obesity and Metabolic Diseases, Madrid, 2012
  • IFSO world Congress Hamburg, 2011
  • AIMS Milano, 2009-2011
  • Perioperative Management in metabolic surgery,Leipzig, 2011
  • Echelon Flex Launch Event, 2010
  • The 1stColchester Metabolic Surgery Symposium, 2008
  • 1st National Congress of the Emirates Society of laparo-endoscopic Surgeons,Dubai, 2007
  • 2nd General Surgery Congress,Turkey, 2007
  • BGES-SOSB, live transmission from operating theatre, 2006
  • 6th International Surgical Update, Sultanate of Oman, 2006
  • 3d UAE Workshop on Morbid Obesity, UAE, 2005

Publications

  • The ‘Standardization of the Lap Gastric Bypass procedure’ has been validated by publications in major medical journals
  • Co-editor of the book Bariatric Surgery, published in 2011 by Imperial College Press
  • Author of a chapter in the book: Controversies in the Anesthetic Management of the Obese Surgical Patient.

See all scientific publications

Other medical activities

  • KCE Member as Expert (Belgian Health Care Knowledge Center)
  • Academic Consulent University of Gent, 2010 – 2013
  • President of the BeSOMS (Belgian Section of Obesity and Metabolic Surgery ) 2010- 2012; 2022 - 2024
  • Secretary General of the SOSB (Belgian Section for Obesity Surgery) 2008-2010
  • President of the Medical Council of AZ St-Jan Brugge -OostendeAV 1999-2002 and 2002 -2005
  • Vice- President of the Medical Council of AZ Sint-Jan Brugge –OostendeAV 1996-1999 and 2005-2008
  • President of the ‘Commission for External Relations’, AZ Sint-Jan Brugge –OostendeAV
  • President of the Advisory Board of ‘AZ Nieuws’ en ‘AZ Link’,Belgium
  • International member of the ASMBS (Amercian Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery)
  • Member of the IFSO (International Federation for Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic disorders)
  • Member of the BSUGI (Belgian Section of Upper Gastro-Intestinal Surgery)
  • Member of the BGES (Belgian Group of Endoscopic Surgeons)
  • Member of the BSAWS (Belgian Section for Abdominal Wall Surgery)
  • Redaction Member of the RBSS (Royal Belgian Society for Surgeons)