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Professor Paul O'Brien

Major Qualification

MD, FRACS

Current Position

Director, Centre of Obesity Research and Education, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University

Track record and current interests

Paul O’Brien is Emeritus Professor of Surgery at Monash University after a 19 year period as Head of the University’s Department of Surgery at the Alfred Hospital. His current principal areas of clinical and research interest are in the morbidity of obesity and the health benefits of weight loss. He is Past President of the Obesity Surgery Society of Australia and New Zealand (1997 – 2004) and a member of Council of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Obesity Surgery “. He chairs the Medical Devices Evaluation Committee (MDEC) of the Therapeutic Goods Administration of the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. He has published more than 180 papers in the medical literature and has been active in conducting postgraduate courses and workshops on obesity and its treatments in Australia, USA, Asia-Pacific countries, South America and Canada.

Five relevant references in the past five years

  1. 2005: Polysomnography before and after weight loss in severely obese patients with severe obstructive sleep apnea. Dixon JB, Schachter LM, O’Brien PE. International Journal of Obesity. 2005
  2. 2005: A prospective randomized trial of the placement of the laparoscopic adjustable gastric band: A comparison of the perigastric and pars-flaccida pathways. O'Brien PE, Dixon JB, Laurie C, Anderson M. Obesity Surgery. 2005; 15:820-26
  3. 2005: Obesity, weight loss and bariatric surgery. Paul O’Brien, Wendy Brown, John Dixon. Medical Journal of Australia. 2005;183:310-314
  4. 2004: Systematic review of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding in the treatment of obesity. Chapman AE, Kiroff G, Game P, Foster B, O’Brien P, Ham J, Maddern GJ Surgery. 2004; 135: 326-51
  5. 2002: The laparoscopic adjustable gastric band (Lap-Band): A prospective study of medium term effect on weight, health and quality of life. O’Brien PE, Dixon JB, Brown WA, Schachter LM, Chapman L, Burn A, Dixon M, et al. Obesity Surgery. 2002; 12(5): 652-660.