Mohamed R. Ali receives master educator award from American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
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Mohamed R. Ali, professor and chief of foregut, metabolic, and general surgery and senior associate chief medical officer for UC Davis Health, received the Dr. Harvey J. Sugerman Master Educator Award from the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS).
Mohamed R. Ali, professor and chief of foregut, metabolic, and general surgery and senior associate chief medical officer for UC Davis Health, received the Dr. Harvey J. Sugerman Master Educator Award from the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
The Master Educator Award recognizes an ASMBS member who has demonstrated excellence as a master educator and mentor in the field of Bariatric Surgery. Recipients of the award have made significant contributions to curriculum development, education research, participation in national educational meetings, educational publications in peer-reviewed journals, the creation of innovative teaching programs, and the development of continuing medical education programs.
The award is named for Harvey Sugerman, who previously served as president of the ASMBS. Sugerman was also Ali’s mentor.
Ali is a professor and chief of Foregut, Metabolic, and General Surgery, the executive director of the Center for Alimentary and Metabolic Science, the medical director of Bariatric Surgery, and the medical director of Outpatient Surgery Clinics.
He specializes in the application of minimally invasive surgical techniques to conventional surgery, surgery of the foregut, including reflux and achalasia, and metabolic bariatric surgery.
Ali’s research examines the microbial-host interaction in obesity and metabolic health, long-term outcomes and comorbidity reduction in metabolic bariatric surgery, and the genetic and hormonal bases of obesity.
