Ram Chuttani has served as the Chief Medical Officer since November 2017 and is a founding member of Allurion. Prior to joining Allurion, Dr. Chuttani was the Director of Endoscopy and Chief, Interventional Gastroenterology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for 20 years. Dr. Chuttani holds a M.B. and a B.S. in Medicine from Maulana Azad Medical College. Dr. Chuttani is internationally recognized as a leader in digestive disease care and has pioneered several innovative endoscopic treatments. He co-invented an endoscopic treatment for gastroesophageal reflux disease and co-developed a novel treatment for obesity. He has published over 100 original scientific articles, in addition to several reviews and book chapters. He has lectured on, and demonstrated, novel and advanced endoscopic procedureat innumerable international conferences and workshops all over the world. Dr. Chuttani completed a residency at Norwalk Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine in Internal Medicine in 1987, and a fellowship in Gastroenterology at Harvard Medical School in 1990.