Robert Caiazzo
Lille II University School of Medicine, France
Biography
Robert Caiazzo is professor of Surgery in the Faculty of medicine at the University of Lille II, Lille, France. Member of the department of general and endocrine surgery at Lille University Hospital, he performed bariatric surgery in a dedicated center for the obesity (CIO Lille) part of the largest hospital in north of europe (CHRU – Lille, 4500 beds). Robert Caiazzo also participates to a research group at the University of Lille, INSERM U1190, devoted the clinical development of biotherapies for treating diabetes. U1190 Translational Diabetes Research is a funding member of the LABEX European Genomic Institute for Diabetes (EGID) was classifi ed as “Remarkable” by the CSS5 Inserm in 2014. Pr Caiazzo research is devoted to the surgical treatment of endocrine and metabolic disease and focused on metabolic surgery for type2 diabetes. Pr Caiazzo has authored or co-authored 25 papers in reputed journals. He is also the principal investigator of several ongoing clinical trials of bariatric surgery in Lille