International Society of Obesity Academic Support: Congratulations on the successful holding of the 2nd Asian Forum on Obesity and Metabolic Surgery (ABSS 2025)!

From April 25 to 26, 2025, the 2nd Asian Obesity Metabolic Surgery Forum (ABSS 2025) hosted by the Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College was successfully concluded in Nanchong, Sichuan. The forum, with the theme of "Standard Bariatric Surgery and Surgical Improvement", attracted more than 100 authoritative experts from China, the United States, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, India, Malaysia and other countries to gather together to discuss in depth the standardization of bariatric metabolic surgery and optimization of surgical procedures, injecting new momentum into promoting the standardized diagnosis and treatment of global obesity and metabolic diseases.

The International Obesity Society (IOS) provides academic support for this conference! Members include: Li Weijie, President and co-founder of the International Society of Obesity (Taiwan, China), Muffazal Lakdawala (India), Qiuye Cheng (Australia), Yosuke Seki (Japan), Reynu Rajan (Malaysia), and Huang Jianhong (Hong Kong, China), co-founder of the International Society of Obesity and chairman of the Chinese branch of Zhu Liyong (China), co-founder of the International Society of Obesity and co-chairman of the Chinese branch of Dong Zhiyong (China), chairman of the Chinese Bariatric Surgery Case Management Working Group of the International Society of Obesity, Yang Ningli (China), and founder of the International Society of Obesity, deputy director of the Institute of Obesity Metabolism of Jinan University, and editor-in-chief of the Chinese Journal of Obesity and Metabolic Diseases, Yang Hua... etc.

Focus on the high-quality development of bariatric and metabolic surgery from an international perspective

Professor Yang Hanfeng, Party Secretary of the Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College, Professor Wang Cunchuan of the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Professor Liu Jingang of the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, and Professor Zhu Shahong of the Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University delivered welcome speeches, emphasizing that this forum aims to build an open and shared academic ecology and promote the standardization and innovation of bariatric surgery. The opening ceremony of the forum was hosted by Professor Ren Yixing, Vice President of the Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College.

Multi-dimensional discussions show academic frontiers and practicalbreakthroughs

Source of some pictures and texts: Conference organizer, Official account of the Affiliated Hospital of North Sichuan Medical College