An Interview…Discussing Obesity, Bariatric Surgery, and the Betsy Lehman Report with George L. Blackburn, MD
April 2008
You place a high level of importance on the multidisciplinary team and mention that this is an important part of the Betsy Lehman Report. Why is it so important to have a multidisciplinary care team within bariatric surgery?
Severe obesity is a multifaceted disease; thus the treatment needs to be multidimensional. Staff that make up a multidisciplinary care team use the expertise in their respective fields to provide input and evaluate and manage the patient throughout the surgery and follow-up period. More information about our multidisciplinary team can be found at www.BIDMC.Harvard.edu/WLS. Read the rest of this article »
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Micronutrient and Macronutrient Needs in Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Patients
March 2008
by Dana Swilley, RD
Ms. Swilley is with the Section of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, UCLA Division of General Surgery
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Five Minutes with…Joan Carroll, PhD
March 2008
A New Link: Laparoscopic Gastric Banding and Reduction in Insulin Resistance
Dr. Joan Carroll is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Physiology at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. Her research focuses on the cardiovascular and endocrine effects of obesity. As part of the North Texas Healthy Heart Study, she is studying ethnic differences in visceral fat distribution and its relationship to inflammatory risk markers and anthropometric measures of body composition. As part of the DREAMS (Diabetes Research, Education, and Metabolic Studies) project, Dr. Carroll and colleagues studied patients before and for one year after bariatric surgery using the laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding procedure.
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