Overview and Objectives:
- Connect young professionals across disciplines in a national network
- Support education and innovation in obesity medicine
- Reinforce research opportunities and evidence-based treatment of obesity
- Challenge stigma and misconceptions surrounding obesity
- Strengthen the future of multidisciplinary obesity care in Switzerland
Eligibility criteria:
- Currently during training years, or early years (< 5y) as a consultant. The upper age limit for eligibility is 45 years of age. SMOB strongly encourages applications from different linguistic regions and institutional settings.
- Fluent English language use, which will serve as the group’s official working language.
- Commitment to multidisciplinary collaboration in obesity care. Representation is strongly encouraged across all following disciplines: surgery, endocrinology, nutrition, gastroenterology, psychiatry, general practitioners, nurses.
- Interest in contributing to the design and implementation of training and educational programs within SMOB.
Membership:
The group members are selected following an open call to all SMOB members and obesity-related societies in Switzerland. The mandate is set for a period of 2 years and is renewable, provided that eligibility criteria continue to be met.
The current SMOB Educational and Early Career Group was appointed in February 2026, following an open call in December 2025. The next call will be launched in December 2027.
Current group composition:
(February 2026 – February 2028), in alphabetical order
- Francesco Abboretti, Bariatric Surgery, Lausanne University Hospital CHUV
- Chantal Hasler, Gastroenterology, Luzerner Kantonsspital, Luzern
- Deborah Hasslein, Dietician, Geneva University Hospital HUG
- Isabel Hofer, Endocrinology, GZF Spital Rheinfelden
- Nicolas Mussmächer, Internal Medicine, Adimed Zentrum, Winterthur
- Lolita Odermatt, Endocrinology, University Hospital Basel, Basel
- Adisa Poljo, Bariatric Surgery, St Claraspital Basel
- Beatrice Rudolph, General Practitioner, Praxisgemeinschaft Mövenstrasse, St Gallen
- Devran Topyürek, Endocrinology, St Claraspital Basel
- Stephanie Turin, Psychosomatic Medicine, Adipositaszentrum Spital Limmatal, Schlieren