Prof. Dr. Jan Willem Greve
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Prof. Dr. Jan Willem Greve

Medical Director Netherlands · Lead Surgeon

Specialist in visceral and bariatric surgery

Professor of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Maastricht University

NetherlandsWaalre

“Obesity is a chronic disease which, in most patients, has many different causes.”

Prof. Dr. Jan Willem Greve

Prof. Dr. Jan Willem Greve is Medical Director of Weight Doctors® Netherlands and the lead specialist at the Waalre location near Eindhoven. He looks back on decades of experience in bariatric surgery and endoscopic bariatrics.

Since 2019 he has been Professor of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery at Maastricht University. He is a study author, keynote speaker and medical trainer (Medical Proctor) for minimally invasive obesity treatments.

Career

  1. since 2022

    Lead Surgeon of Weight Doctors® for Weight Doctors SLEEVE® using Apollo OverStitch SX technology and pose®2 Endo-Sleeve technology

  2. since 2022

    Medical Director of Weight Doctors® Netherlands, Waalre

  3. since 2019

    Professor of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine of Maastricht University

  4. since 2015

    Chair of the joint Medical Ethics Committee of Zuyderland Klinikum and Zuyd University, Heerlen

  5. until September 2022

    Head of Visceral and Obesity Surgery at Zuyderland Klinikum, Heerlen

  6. until September 2022

    Medical Director of Obesitas Klinieken Süd, Netherlands

  7. 2008–2022

    Surgeon in the Department of Surgery at Zuyderland Klinikum and head of Bariatric Surgery, Heerlen

  8. 2005–2006

    President of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO)

  9. August 2005

    Organiser and President of the 10th IFSO World Congress, Maastricht

  10. 2004–2008

    Professor of Surgery at MUMC Maastricht, holder of the chair of gastrointestinal and oncological surgery, programme director of bariatric surgery

  11. since March 2000

    Co-editor of Obesity Surgery

  12. since January 1998

    Member of the editorial board of Obesity Surgery

  13. September 1998

    Organiser of the 3rd World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity, Bruges (Belgium)

  14. 1994–2004

    Associate Professor of Surgery at Maastricht University Hospital

  15. 1990

    Dissertation “Complications in obstructive jaundice. An experimental study on aetiology and prevention”

  16. 1982–1989

    Surgical specialist training at Maastricht University Hospital

  17. 1974–1981

    Medical studies at the Catholic University of Leuven (KUL), Belgium

The team

More specialists

  • GermanyNetherlandsDr. ScheffelSpecialist in general and bariatric surgery
  • GermanyAustriaProf. MillerSpecialist in general and visceral surgery
  • GermanyPD Dr. WichmannSpecialist in visceral surgery & expert in endobariatrics
  • GermanyM. MargolinsSpecialist in general surgery
  • GermanyM. ShalabiSpecialist in general and visceral surgery
  • GermanyNetherlandsDr. JennerSpecialist in visceral surgery / specialised visceral surgery
  • GermanyDr. SchüderSpecialist in general, visceral and vascular surgery / specialist in specialised visceral surgery
  • GermanyA. SaberSpecialist in orthopaedics and trauma surgery

All specialists

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