Medical Innovation in 2025
A visionary surgeon, Dr. Michel Gagner has spent decades pushing the boundaries of innovation, from performing the world’s first sleeve gastrectomy to pioneering magnetic surgery. After returning to Quebec, he refined this technique, which uses magnets to create a natural and gradual intestinal connection, with no staplers and fewer stitches required.

After years of research and clinical trials, this delayed anastomosis technology received approval from both the FDA and Health Canada. Its potential is considerable: easing the burden of obesity and diabetes, reducing healthcare costs, and opening the door to new applications in digestive and oncologic surgery. Having trained thousands of surgeons worldwide, Dr. Gagner remains driven by one guiding principle, challenging established norms to advance modern medicine.