Category: Current Issue
Readers’ Choice: The Most-viewed Articles of All Time
These were the 10 most-accessed articles on www.bariatrictimes.com. Risk Management: Depositions: What Your Lawyer May Have Forgotten to Tell You Author: Julie M. Janeway, BBA, MSA, JD Issue: May 2007 Commentary: Piranha in the Shark Tank: An Overview of Pseudo Health Claims, Unregulated Weight Loss Supplements, and Modern Pharmaceutical Intervention for the Treatment of Obesity […]
Raising the Standard: The Finale
by Anthony T. Petrick, MD, FACS, FASMBS; and Dominick Gadaleta, MD, FACS, FASMBS Dr. Petrick is Chief Quality Officer, Geisinger Clinic; Director of Bariatric and Foregut Surgery, Geisinger Health System in, Danville, Pennsylvania. Dr. Gadaleta is Vice Chair of Surgery, Northwell Health, and Professor of Surgery, Zucker School of Medicine in Hempstead, New York. Funding: […]
Letter to the Editor: A Response to “Are We Missing Another Opportunity?”
by Edward H. Phillips, MD, FACS Dr. Phillips is Professor of Surgery; Vice Chair, Department of Surgery; Chair Holder, Dolly Parton Chair in Surgical Innovation, Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Funding: No funding was provided for this article. Disclosures: The author has no conflicts of interest relevant to the contents of this […]
Anti-obesity Pharmacotherapy: Where Do We Stand in 2023?
by Harold Bays, MD, FOMA, FTOS, FACC, FNLA, FASPC Dr. Bays is Medical Director/President, Louisville Metabolic and Atherosclerosis Research Center, and Clinical Associate Professor, University of Louisville School of Medicine in Louisville, Kentucky. Funding: No funding was provided. Disclosures: The author has no conflicts of interest relevant to the content of this article. Bariatric Times. […]
Reader Feedback/Memories and a Message from the Managing Editor
BT Reader Feedback/Memories We reached out to the BT reader community for their thoughts on what the journal meant to them, how it impacted their practice, or any memories they have of it. Below are select responses: “Bariatric Times allowed for stories to grow and education to be forthcoming. As a patient-provider, this publication allowed […]
The Trifecta—It’s in the Name
Richard M. Peterson, MD, MPH, FACS, FASMBS, DABS-FPMBS, is the Co-clinical Editor of Bariatric Times; Professor of Surgery, UT Health San Antonio; Chief, Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas. Dear Colleagues, This year, I will be finishing my four-year term as a board member of the organization formally known as […]
Addressing Obesity in Men
Jennifer C. Seger, MD, FOMA, is the Co-clinical Editor of Bariatric Times; Diplomate, American Board of Obesity Medicine; Medical Director, Bariatric Medical Institute of Texas, San Antonio, Texas. Dear Readers, To all the wonderful Dads out there, Happy Father’s Day! June is National Men’s Health Month, which makes the topic of this editorial fitting. Men […]
An Interview with Shanu N. Kothari, MD, FACS, FASMBS
by Omar M. Ghanem, MD, FACS; Tammy Kindel, MD, PhD, FACS, FASMBS; Shaina R. Eckhouse, MD, FACS, FASMBS; and Benjamin Clapp, MD, FACS, FASMBS Dr. Ghanem is a bariatric surgeon at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Kindel is Associate Professor of Surgery at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dr. Eckhouse […]
A Survey on Scope of Practice Among Members of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
by Abdulaziz A. Arishi, MD; Jean F. Salem, MD; Pavel Burskii, MD; Jill Stoltzfus, PhD; Anthony T. Petrick, MD; Ranjan Sudan, MD; and Maher El Chaar, MD Drs. Arishi, Salem, Burskii, Stoltzfus, and El Chaar are with the Department of Surgery, St. Luke’s University Hospital and Health Network, Lewis Katz School of Medicine in Bethlehem, […]
