A belief to tread a path undiscovered by others, rather than follow the norm.

The Asian Consensus Meetings are a CODS initiative and have been organized with the vision of creating one VOICE OF ASIA which would be 'from Asia for Asians', thus bringing Asia to the forefront. The aim has been to bring together the crème de la crème of the Asian bariatric community to deliberate on the existing issues in bariatric surgery. These meetings have maintained the tradition of academic excellence and have been an academic feast like none other. All the meetings were endorsed by premier surgical societies across the world and have been extremely well received in the Asian subcontinent and the rest of the world.

One of the many initiatives of CODS is the Asian Consensus Meeting on Metabolic Surgery or ACMOMS. As the name suggests this meeting strives to bring together metabolic surgeons from across the world with the purpose of arriving at a consensus on a specified subject.

ACMOMS in its first year on 09 August 2008 was organized in Coimbatore, Kerala. It focused on creating guidelines for obesity in Asians. The report from the consensus statement of ACMOMS I "Recommendations for use of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery in Asia" has been published online in the journal: Obesity Surgery. These guidelines have been accepted by IFSO APC and APMBSS as a standard.

ACMOMS its second year was held in Jodhpur, Rajasthan on October 3 & 4, 2009. It aimed to arrive at a consensus on Sleeve Gastrectomy, a specific kind of a surgery that delivers several advantages for patients and surgeons.

ACMOMS is in its third year in 2010 took place in August 6 in Panaji, Goa. The scientific meeting this time around focused on arriving at a consensus on redo / revisional surgery.

ACMOMS-IV was held from October 6th to October 8th in the beautiful city of Amritsar. This year the focus was on the diagnosis and management of “Complications in Bariatric Surgery” . As always it had many experts from the Asia Pacific region who deliberated on a lot of complex issues in bariatric/metabolic surgery. An ACMOMS Core Committee with representation from every Asian country was formed this year. The core committee will focus on transnational research and state of the art training in bariatric surgery. It was also for the first time in India that CME credits were awarded to an Obesity Conference.