Dr. Samer Mattar is a bariatric surgeon, Professor and Chief in the Division of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine. Formerly, he was Medical Director of Swedish Weight Loss Services in Seattle, WA, and prior to that he was Professor of Surgery at Oregon Health & Science University. He is also Past President of the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeons and the President of the Fellowship Council. 

Dr. Mattar graduated from Cairo University in 1983 and completed his general surgery residency at Emory University in Atlanta, GA. He completed a second general surgery residency at Vanderbilt University in 2000 and an advanced laparoscopic fellowship at Emory in 2002.