Dr. Patrick Noel, MD, FACS, FASMBS, FIFSO, is a consultant bariatric and metabolic surgeon at Hôpital Privé Bouchard (ELSAN), Marseille, France, and at Phi Medcare, Lusail, Qatar, and founder of BariaEdge Consulting. He earned his MD at the University of Bordeaux and completed his residency in general surgery and a fellowship in minimally invasive and digestive surgery at the University of Montpellier (Saint Eloi Teaching Hospital, Freance). With more than 30 years of operative experience and over 9,000 bariatric procedures, including 2,000+ revisional cases, he developed the posterior approach to sleeve gastrectomy and was the first to introduce the BariClip in Europe, Japan and the Middle East. He is starting to launch the magnetic anastomosis technologies in MENA. He has authored 160 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters (h-index 22) and delivered around 600 presentations. He served as President of the First International Expert Opinion on the BariClip (IFSO World Congress, Miami, 2022). He is a Fellow of the ASMBS, the American College of Surgeons and the IFSO, and serves on the editorial boards of Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases (SOARD) and Obesity Surgery. He has been appointed International Director of Bariatric Channel.