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Pr David Nocca

Professor David NOCCA is Professor of Digestive Surgery at Montpellier University Hospital.
He is recognized worldwide as an expert in bariatric sleeve surgery.
He was one of the first to integrate LPG techniques into the pre and postoperative management of the obese patient.

He spent more than a year at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, world leader in the field.

Director of the bariatric and metabolic surgery team since 2007 at CHU Montpellier.

Expert in laparoscopic technique.

More than 2,000 bariatric surgery operations performed.

SOFFCO Scientific Director.

HAS expert.

CNAM expert.

Founding President of the League Against Obesity.

Scientific Director of the COMEDIT LR network.

On Thursday, December 6, 2012 at 3 pm, Professor David NOCCA performed at the University Hospital of Montpellier an obese patient aged 60 years. The intervention was broadcast live as a world premiere in the United States to all world specialists in bariatric surgery (800 surgeons from more than 50 countries) gathered in New York, as part of an international consensus conference.