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Weight Doctors® GLP-1 pharmacotherapyMedication-based, no procedure3–12 months · from €599Medically supervised pharmacotherapy with regular progress monitoring – with no procedure at all.
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Prof. Dr. med. Karl Miller
Global Medical Director · Lead Surgeon
Specialist in general and visceral surgery
Past President of the global federation for obesity surgery (IFSO)
Wertheim · Dortmund
“A minimally invasive obesity treatment is not the final solution for all patients on the way to a lasting healthy life. But in my decades of work with many unhappy people I have learned that, for most of them, such a step was the necessary prerequisite for it.”
Prof. Dr. med. Karl Miller is a specialist in general and visceral surgery and has been a specialist and medical trainer for Weight Doctors® since 2021. He is co-initiator of Weight Doctors SLEEVE® and Medical Director of Weight Doctors BARIATRICS® in Dortmund.
He has treated more than 4,000 obesity patients using minimally invasive methods and works as a study author, keynote speaker and medical trainer (Medical Proctor) for minimally invasive obesity treatments.
Career
- since 2022
Lead Surgeon of Weight Doctors® for Weight Doctors SLEEVE® using Apollo OverStitch SX technology and pose®2 Endo-Sleeve technology
- since 2022
Medical Director of Weight Doctors® for Bariatric Surgery in Dortmund
- since 2021
Specialist and medical trainer for Weight Doctors®
- 2016–2020
Freelance medical work as a specialist for weight loss with the pose® procedure, Medical One GmbH
- 2001–2015
Chief physician (Primar) of the Surgical Department at Krankenhaus Hallein, Salzburg (Austria)
- 1983
Doctorate at the Karl-Franzens-Universität in Innsbruck (Austria)
Memberships
- International Surgical Team (since 2002)
- Austrian Surgical Society
- Austrian Society for Obesity Surgery – Past President
- American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS)
- Obesity Academy Austria – President
- International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO) – Past President, member of the Board of Trustees
- Working Group for Surgical Oncology (ACO)
- Salzburg Medical Society
- Working Group for Minimally Invasive Surgery (AMIC)
- Austrian Society for Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- Salzburg Pain Institute – Board Member
- Interdisciplinary Forum for Chronic Inflammatory Bowel Diseases – Vice President
- European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES)
- Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS)
The team
More specialists
Dr. ScheffelSpecialist in general and bariatric surgery
PD Dr. WichmannSpecialist in visceral surgery & expert in endobariatrics
M. MargolinsSpecialist in general surgery
M. ShalabiSpecialist in general and visceral surgery
Dr. JennerSpecialist in visceral surgery / specialised visceral surgery
Dr. SchüderSpecialist in general, visceral and vascular surgery / specialist in specialised visceral surgery
A. SaberSpecialist in orthopaedics and trauma surgery
Prof. GreveSpecialist in visceral and bariatric surgery
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