Head of the 2nd General Surgery Department at A. Bohomolets National Medical University, Professor, Doctor of Medicine, top class surgeon, Honored Doctor of Ukraine, member of the Ukrainian Association for the Surgery of Obesity, Ukraine’s representative on the board of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity.In 2010, he was the fist surgeon in Ukraine to perform a single-port(through a single puncture) gall bladder removal surgery. Since 2001, Prof Ioffe has been working at the problem of surgical treatment of obesity. He is able to perform all types of weight loss surgeries. All his bariatric surgeries are performed using the laparoscopic technique (through punctures in the abdominal wall).
His interest is toward laparoscopic stomach bypass surgery and bariatric surgeries