Dr. Philip Schauer is recognized as being the first surgeon to perform laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery and has since performed more than 8,000 operations for severe obesity. He is known to handle many of the most difficult bariatric surgery cases in the world.

Currently, Dr. Schauer is a Professor of Metabolic Surgery and Director of the Bariatric and Metabolic Institute at Pennington Biomedical Research Institute of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

He has authored more than 350 scientific papers, 60 textbook chapters, and three textbooks related to obesity, bariatric/metabolic surgery and gastrointestinal surgery. He is a long-standing member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Obesity, Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases and Obesity Surgery. Dr. Schauer enjoys sharing his knowledge and has trained more than 200 postgraduate surgeons and 100 fellows in advanced laparoscopic and bariatric surgery.