1983-1987

Hospital boarding school

1987-1988

Clinic director/ Paris hospital assistant

1988-1991

Hospital practitioner

1985

Medical doctorate

1991-2011

Laparoscopic surgery activity

More than 1,500 operations per year (Vesicles-stomach-wall surgery colon rectum esophagus ovaries uterus)

2000-2015

Bariatric surgery activity

• • Gastric band (1500)
  • By pass (1200)
  • Since 2009 Sleeve Gastrectomy (1,800 including 200 gastric plicatures et 100 N-Sleeves)

Since 2013

more  than100 obeses are operated on every month  : 1^{st ou} 2^nd 

1st  : primary operation

2nd :  transformation from one bariatric operation to another

• The indications of restrictive gastroplasties in Morocco (national congress of surgery 2006).

• Intragastric ring migrations (Nice. SOFFCO 2009)

• The state of play of morbid obesity in Morocco (Tangier-2003)

• Place of malabsorptive surgery in Moroccan diabetics.

• Which obese for which surgery in Morocco? Maghrebian Surgery Congress 2010

• State of play of Bariatric surgery in Morocco: Montpellier. SOFFCO 2012)

• The course of the obese patient in Casablanca (February 2015 rabat society of endocrinology)

• Diabetes and gastric Bypass (Tunis 2014)

• The course of the obese patient in a liberal environment before / after surgery (Naples 2016)

• Bypass and Diabetes (Marrakech November 2017)

• Undernutrition and Bypass in Omega (Marseille 2018)

• «How I do the N-Sleeve” (Marseille 2019)

• Member of ASBMS (American Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery)

• Member of the IFSO (International Federation Of Obesity Surgery)

• Member of the French Society of Obesity Surgery (SOFFCO)

• Member of the French Surgery Association (AFC)

• Member of the French association of endoscopic surgery (SFCE)

• Member of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES).

• Member of ACLAVINE (Association of Laparoscopic and Visceral Surgery of the North East)

• International Fellow of the American Society of Bariatric Surgery

• “International Fellow of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. IFASMBS ”

• Professor Simon Msika. Louis Mourier Hospital (Paris-France).

• Professor François Pattou. Lille University Hospital (France).

• Dr Salomon Benchetrit. Jean Mermoz private hospital. Lyon (France) and Parc Lyon clinic. 

• Professor Alfonso – Pomp Cornell Hospital – New York

• Dr Marc Danan : Toulon
• Pr David Nocca : Montpellier
• Dr Guillaume Pourcher – Institut Monsouris – Paris
• Pr François Pattou – Lille
• Pr Robert Calazzio – Lille
• Pr Jean-Michel Siksik – Paris
• Pr Ianelli – Nice
• Dr Jean-Marc Chevalier – Hopital Georges Pompidou – Paris

• Dr François Hacquin – Nice
• Dr Eric Magnes – Bordeaux
• Dr Pierre Blanc – Gap
• Dr Martin Guenzi – Dijon

• The company PROWELL NUTRITION leader in food supplements for obese patients.

• The Obesinov company, the new generation of tailor-made compression 

June 2017

Dr. Richard Abittan and his team were awarded the highly prized Certificate of Labeling from ASMBS, the American Society for Obesity and Metabolic Disease Surgery.