About the British Obesity & Metabolic Surgery Society

We are a professional society of surgeons involved in obesity management.

Membership of the society includes medical professionals and allied health professionals including specialist nurses, dieticians, psychologists and dieticians.

BOMSS aims to promote the development of high quality centres for obesity surgery, to educate and train future obesity surgeons and practitioners and to guide commissioning and policy for the use of obesity surgery in the UK.

We welcome feedback and suggestions from BOMSS members about this website. Email info@bomss.org.uk with your views.

Affiliations

• Association of Upper Gastro-Intestinal Surgeons (AUGIS)
  
• International Federation of Surgery for Obesity (IFSO)
  
• Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI)

Partner Societies

• Association of Laparoscopic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ALS)
• Society for Obesity and Bariatric Anaesthesia (SOBAUK)

BOMSS Council

 

Mr Richard Welbourn	President
Mr Roger Ackroyd	Secretary
Mr Simon Dexter	Treasurer
Professor Duff Bruce
Ms Sally Norton
Mr Peter Small
Mr Vinod Menon
Mr Sean Woodcock
Mr Shaw Somers
Mr Ian Beckingham	AUGIS, ex-officio
Ms Gail Pinnock	AHP Representative
Mr Ken Clare	AHP Representative
Mrs Mary O'Kane	AHP Representative
Mr Alan Osborne	Trainee Representative
Past BOMSS Presidents	2010-13 - Professor Alberic Fiennes, London