Biography

Lilian Kow is the Clinical Director of GI surgery at Flinders Medical Centre and Clinical Associate Professor at the College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University in South Australia. She has been involved in training surgeons in bariatric surgery nationally and internationally. Lilian is a co-founder/Director of the Adelaide Bariatric Centre, which was established in 1995 as the first obesity surgical clinic in Adelaide. She has been President IFSO 2019-2022 and the Past President of IFSO-APC and ANZMOSS Australian and New Zealand Metabolic and Obesity Surgical Society Lilian has a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees and a PhD degree in Neuroscience from Flinders University of South Australia and a Fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Lilian is a keen researcher with over 100 peer reviewed publications and she sits on the Editorial Board of several journals. In addition, she is the President Australian Chinese Medical Association (SA).