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Multidisciplinary Care – The Future of the Treatment for Obesity

Matthew M. Hutter, MD, MBA, MPH, FACS
President, American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, 
Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Surgery
Director, Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery
Director, MGH Weight Center
The Codman-Warshaw Endowed Chair of Surgery
Boston, MA 

Dr. Hutter is a general and gastrointestinal surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), where his clinical work focuses on advanced laparoscopic, foregut and bariatric surgery. He graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and completed his surgical training and a fellowship in advanced laparoscopic and bariatric surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He is a Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He earned a Master’s in Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and a Master’s in Business Administration from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the Director of the MGH Weight Center and the Director of the Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness in Surgery. He also serves as an executive director of the MGH Department of Surgery Quality and Safety Program. He served as the Chief of Clinical Operations at the Boston Hope Field Hospital during the COVID pandemic.

Dr. Hutter was elected by membership to be the President of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) in 2019-21. He has been the Chair of the Data Committee for the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program (MBSAQIP) and has helped to lead the development and implementation of the national data collection system for bariatric surgery since its inception in 2005. Dr. Hutter has served as a member of the Board of Governors for the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, as chair of the Health Care Quality and Outcomes Committee for the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, and as member of the Board of the Fellowship Council. 

His overall academic focus is on the development, implementation and responsible use of data collection systems in Surgery, with a focus on assessing and improving the quality of surgical care.