Dr. Marcelo Papelbaum is a psychiatrist and has been a research collaborator of the Eating Disorders and Obesity Group of the State Institute of Diabetes and Endocrinology of Rio de Janeiro for the last 18 years.

 

Master and Doctorate degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

 

Dr. Papelbaum expertise on bariatric surgery comes from academic and private office work from the last 14 years and is the coordinator of the psychiatric section of a bariatric surgery post-graduation course.

 

He has been an active collaborator in the past meetings of the American for Eating Disorders Association, including a participation in a panel discussing metabolic surgery in 2011, a workshop presentation about eating disorders in diabetes in 2013 and a workshop coordination about weight regain after bariatric surgery in 2014. Finally, he was a chair of the special interest group for bariatric surgery during 2014 and 2015.

 

Currently, he has been investigating the association between eating psychopathology and weight regain after bariatric surgery and novels psychopharmacological treatment for binge eating disorder.

 

He has been working as a private office psychiatrist for the last 20 years.