Dr. Hainer is working as a senior scientist at the Obesity Management Center, Institute of Endocrinology in Prague, Czech Republic. Over more than thirty years his career (as Associate Professor) was associated with the Departments of Medicine at The First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague. During the period 2002-2011, he acted as a director of the Institute of Endocrinology in Prague. In 1993 he co-founded the Czech Society for the Study of Obesity, of which he was the first president. His extensive international responsibilities included Obesity Management Task Force of the European Association for the Study of Obesity /EASO/ (2001 – ongoing), president-elect (2003-2006) and president (2006-2009) of the EASO. He has been a member of editorial boards of several medical journals. He participated in organizing the European Congresses on Obesity (ECO), the Congresses on Controversies to Consensus in Diabetes, Obesity and Hypertension (CODHy), Central European Congresses on Obesity (CECON) and the Round Table Meetings on Obesity Management. He was an author of several textbooks on obesity and co-author of the Guidelines on Obesity Management in Europe. He has published over 200 papers in medical journals.
His research interests are Very low energy diets (VLED), obesity management in severely obese patients, factors affecting the outcome of obesity treatment, weight cycling, genetic and environmental aspects of weight change in obesity, eating behavior and health risks, obesity in adolescence, anti-obesity drugs, hormonal and metabolic response to bariatric surgery.
