Professor Jan Willem Greve, MD

Specialist surgeon in visceral & bariatric surgery /
Medical Director Weight Doctors Nederland

 

Obesity is a chronic disease with complex causes in most patients. With my scientific and clinical contribution, I would like to ensure that my future patients receive the best possible individual treatment based on the latest medical knowledge and possibilities – for the longest possible success.

Career & Education

Professor Jan Willem Greve, MD and his team are your point of contact for weight loss with the Weight Doctors SLEEVE® using the Apollo OverStitch SX technology and the pose®2 Endo-Sleeve technology. Recognised both in the Netherlands and internationally for his scientific contribution, this accomplished specialist has decades of experience in both bariatric surgery and endoscopic bariatrics. In October 2022, Prof Greve was awarded the Order of Merit of Orange-Nassau of the Netherlands.  


Since 2022
Global Lead Surgeon at the Weight Doctors for the Weight Doctors SLEEVE® using the Apollo OverStitch SX technology and the pose®2 endo-sleeve technology.  

 

Since 2022
Medical Director, Weight Doctors Netherlands
Waalre, Netherlands

 

Since 2019
Professor of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine, Maastricht University
Maastricht, Netherlands

 

Since 2015
Chairman of the joint Medical Ethics Committee of Zuyderland Hospital and Zuyd University
Heerlen, Netherlands

 

until September 2022
Head of Visceral and Obesity Surgery of Zuyderland Klinikum
Heerlen, Netherlands

 

until September 2022
Medical Director of the Obesitas Kliniken South
Netherlands


2008 – 2022
Surgeon in the Department of Surgery at Zuyderland Hospital and Head of Bariatric Surgery
Heerlen, Netherlands


2004-2008
Professor of Surgery at Maastricht University Hospital (MUMC) and holder of the Chair of Gastrointestinal and Oncological Surgery. Programme Director for Bariatric Surgery at MUMC
Maastricht, Netherlands

 

1994-2004
Associate Professor of Surgery at Maastricht University Hospital
Maastricht, Netherlands

 

1990
Dissertation: Complications in obstructive jaundice. An experimental study on aetiology and prevention.

 

1982 – 1989
Surgical training at the University Hospital Maastricht
Maastricht, Netherlands

 

1974 – 1981
Study of human medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL)
Leuven, Belgium

Weight Doctors - Global Lead Surgeon - Prof Jan Willem Greve

 

Experience & Expertise


Professor Jan Willem Greve is the medical director of Weight Doctors Netherlands and the specialist in charge at the Weight Doctors Waalre clinic near Eindhoven. He is a member of the Weight Doctors Global Lead Surgeon team.


Specialist with the most experience in the Netherlands in the delivery of the revolutionary pose®2 endo-sleeve procedure and pose® procedure  

  

Professor Jan Willem Greve is the first Dutch specialist certified for Weight Doctors SLEEVE®: the leading procedure for endoscopic stomach reduction without traditional surgery.  

   

He has performed thousands of bariatric surgical operations as well as endoscopic bariatric procedures in his career.  

 

Professor Jan Willem Greve is internationally renowned for his numerous scientific publications, papers and lectures. He is a recognised obesity expert as a study author, keynote speaker and medical proctor for minimally invasive obesity treatments. 

  

Professor Jan Willem Greve is a regular author and co-author of publications in both medical journals and scientific journals.  

  

Author of more than 220 articles in international journals and several book chapters both in the field of bariatric surgery and intensive care medicine 

 

 

Further milestones and accreditations:

 

Co-founder and past president of the Benelux Association for Bariatric Surgeons (currently continuing as the Dutch Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery DSMBS)

Member of the Editorial Board of Obesity Surgery (since January 1998)

Co-editor of the Journal Obesity Surgery (since March 2000)

President of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and metabolic disorders (IFSO) 2005-2006

Organiser of the 3rd World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity, Bruges, Belgium, 3-5 September 1998  

Organiser and President of the 10th World Congress of IFSO August 2005, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Supervisor of 18 dissertations, 11 of them on morbid obesity  

Elected President of the Board of Trustees of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and metabolic disorders  

 

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