Board Member

guilherme campos

Dr. Guilherme M. Campos is an expert in minimally invasive surgery and therapeutic endoscopy for obesity, esophageal, and gastric diseases. He is the Paul J. Nutter Professor and Chair of the Division of Bariatric and Gastrointestinal Surgery of Surgery at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia; where he is also the Co-director of the Foregut, Advanced GI/MIS, and Bariatric Fellowship program.

Dr. Campos obtained an MD and PhD degrees and completed General and GI Surgery Residency at the University of Parana in Brazil. He also completed the last 3 years of the general surgery residency at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles, where he also was a Research and Clinical Fellow in Foregut Surgery under Dr. Tom DeMeester.

After USC, Dr. Campos served as Assistant Professor of Surgery and Director of the Bariatric Surgery Program at the University of California San Francisco till 2009. He then moved to the University of Wisconsin (UW) in Madison as Associate Professor and later promoted to Professor of Surgery. In 2015 he joined Virginia Commonwealth University.

Dr. Campos is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS); and is an honorary Fellow of the Brazilian Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, the Austrian Surgical Society and the Austrian Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. He is also a member the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, the Society of University Surgeons, the Pacific Coast Surgical Association, American Foregut Society, among others.

He has authored or co-authored over 160 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in books, and serves as an Associate Editors for SOARD, the official Journal of the ASMBS, and as a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery and Foregut.