Professor Francesco Rubino

Surgery

GMC: 7463904

Professional statement

Professor Francesco Rubino is a leading, internationally-renowned bariatric surgeon and a pioneer in the field of metabolic weight loss treatment and surgery, based in London.

Originally, Professor Rubino trained in Rome, Italy, at the Catholic University Hospital doing his residence in general surgery and receiving his MD. His surgery training was furthered during his Fellowship in laproscopic and minimally invasive surgery at The European Institute of Telesurgery in Strasbourg, France, Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Naturally, Professor Rubino became Chief of Gastroinestinal Metabolic Surgery and Director of the Diabetes Surgery Centre at Weill Cornell Medical College. At the same time, he was an attending surgeon at New York Presbytarian Hospital in New York. Not too long after in 2013, he was appointed to King's College Hospital as a Professor of Metabolic Surgery; it was the first of its kind, making him an international ground-breaker in the field.

Since then, he has continued to lead his field with novel procedures and advancing the concept of bariatric surgery. Professor Rubino has transformed bariatrics from simply weight-loss therapy to a surgical treatment for multiple metabolic conditions. In particular, he did a study in 2006 that resulted in positive results for type II diabetes. Pioneering the world of bariatrics, Professor Rubino has gone around the world attending various conferences, holding posts a memberships, publishing more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific journals, receiving innumerable prizes, and even organising his own Diabetes Surgery Summit which was supported internationally. Without a doubt, he has become a reference in his field.

Representing the impact of his expertise, one of Professor Rubino's patients, Jenni Murray, authored a memoir, Fat Cow, Fat Chance, about her journey through weight loss. Murray struggled throughout her life with the idea of weight, obesity, and weight loss. Once she found Professor Rubino, her life was forever changed and, more importantly, saved.

Areas of expertise:
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Gastric bypass

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Gastric band

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Diabetes surgery

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Obesity

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Bariatric surgery

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Gastric sleeve

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Francesco Rubino
Can metabolic surgery cure diabetes?

Professor Francisco Rubino, a pioneer in the field of metabolic weight loss, with many years experience in Europe and the US, explains how bariatric surgery was developed and how it can help diabetic patients nowadays.

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Bariatric surgery: a solution for type 2 diabetes

Professor Rubino sheds light on how metabolic surgery changes the way blood sugar levels are regulated, and how this can, in some cases, cure type 2 diabetes.

Reviews

L.M.

20/12/2023

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Excellent

C.M.

27/03/2023

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I am so pleased that I made the decision to have Prof Rubino work with me on this journey. He is calm, considered and obviously extremely knowledgable. But more than that, he understood and did not judge how and why I had made the choice to pursue metabolic surgery as a solution.

C.M.

17/08/2022

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From my first meeting with Professor Rubino, I knew I was in safe hands. He immediately made me feel at ease and explained everything to me clearly and compassionately. It was clear to me that my health and wellbeing was Professor Rubino's primary concern. I highly recommend.

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King's College Hospital
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Denmark Hill, SE5 9RS, Central London (London)

telephone (+44) 02084347991

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London Bridge Hospital
location
3rd Floor, 29 Tooley Street, SE5 9RS, Central London (London)

telephone (+44) 02071139466

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