Dr. Michal Cierny is a senior surgeon specialising in laparoscopic and mini-invasive surgery, particularly in weight loss surgery (also called bariatric surgery or obesity surgery). With several hundreds of gastric band and more than 300 gastric sleeve procedures he is one of the most experienced surgeons in this field in Czech Republic.
Currently he has been performing most frequently gastric bypass surgeries and gastric plications.

Recent presentations:

• World IFSO Hamburg 2011: "Complications in a serie of 550 bariatric patients operated by a single surgeon”;
• IFSO Lausanne 2010: "Evaluation of initial 150 Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomies by posterior technique with no over-suturing";
• IFSO Paris 2009: "Comparison of weight loss results in 100 patients after Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding and 100 patients after Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy";
• CECON 2008 Karlovy vary: "Postoperative follow up of patients after bariatric surgery using data manager wlsr.eu";
• Oporto 2007;
• Durban 2006: "Quality of life after Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding".

Associations:

• founding member of committee of Bariatric section of Czech Surgical Society and Czech Society for the Study of Obesity;
• member of IFSO;
• member of EAES.