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After 30 Years—New Guidelines for Weight Loss Surgery: Medical Groups Replace Outdated Consensus Statement that Overly Restricts Access to Modern-Day Weight Loss Surgery

After 30 Years—New Guidelines for Weight Loss Surgery: Medical Groups Replace Outdated Consensus Statement that Overly Restricts Access to Modern-Day Weight Loss Surgery

| December 1, 2022

NEWBERRY, FL – Oct. 21, 2022 – Two of the world’s leading authorities on bariatric and metabolic surgery have issued new evidence-based clinical guidelines that among a slew of recommendations expand patient eligibility for weight loss surgery and endorse metabolic surgery for patients with Type 2 diabetes beginning at a body mass index (BMI) of […]

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ISPCOP: An Update on How Far We Have Come in the Past 7 Years

ISPCOP: An Update on How Far We Have Come in the Past 7 Years

| March 1, 2018 | 0 Comments

by Anupama Wadhwa, MD; Roman Schumann, MD, FASA; Stephanie Jones, MD Dr. Wadhwa is with Norton Brownsboro Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Schumann a Professor of Anesthesiology at Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Jones is with Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.  Funding: No funding was provided for this article. Disclosures: […]

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The ACS/SAGES Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery® Expands Internationally

| April 1, 2015 | 0 Comments

Bariatric Times. 2015;12(4):12–13. An Interview with: Steven Schwaitzberg, MD Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Chief of Surgery, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Massachusetts; SDS Chair, FLS Committee, AO Vice Chair FLS Committee-International Affairs. Allan Okrainec, MD, MHPE, FRCSC, FACS Head, Division of General Surgery, UHN, Peter A. Crossgrove Chair in General Surgery, Director, Temerty/Chang Telesimulation […]

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The Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy (FUSE) Program: Promoting Operating Room Safety

| October 13, 2014 | 0 Comments

by Pascal Fuchshuber, MD, PhD, FACS; Amin Madani, MD; Daniel B. Jones, MD, MS, FACS; and Steven Schwaitzberg, MD Dr. Fuchshuber, Hepatobiliary and Oncologic Surgery, Associate Professor of Surgery, UCSF, NSQIP Physician Lead, NCAL Region, The Permanente Medical Group, Inc., Walnut Creek, California. Dr. Amin Madani, Division of General Surgery, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. […]

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News from the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons

| March 26, 2014 | 0 Comments

Bariatric Times. 2014;11(3):26–27. FUNDING: No funding was provided. DISCLOSURES: The author reports no conflicts of interest relevant to the content of this article. The mission of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) is to improve quality patient care through education, research, innovation and leadership, principally in gastrointestinal and endoscopic surgery. SAGES is […]

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Spotlight on The National Association of Bariatric Nurses

| March 26, 2014 | 0 Comments

by Laurie D. McGinley, DNP, MSN, APRN, CNS-BC, CBN Ms. McGinley is Program Coordinator, Western Bariatric Institute, Reno, Nevada. FUNDING: No funding was provided. DISCLOSURES: The author reports no conflicts of interest relevant to the content of this article. Bariatric Times. 2014;11(3):30–31. Welcome to the National Association of Bariatric Nurses The National Association of Bariatric […]

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Development of the International Bariatric Club: A Worldwide Internet Network for Bariatric Surgeons

| January 18, 2012 | 0 Comments

by Haris A. Khwaja, MD, PhD; Marius A. Nedelcu, MD; Manoel Galvão Neto, MD; Mervyn Deitel, MD; Philip R. Schauer, MD; and Tomasz G. Rogula, MD, PhD

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International Society for the Perioperative Care of the Obese Patient

International Society for the Perioperative Care of the Obese Patient

| July 22, 2011 | 0 Comments

by Ashish Sinha, MD, PhD, DABA, and Anupama Wadhwa, MD Dr. Sinha is Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, and Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Wadhwa is Associate Professor, University of Louisville, Site Director, Outcomes Research Consortium, Director Of Residency Curriculum, […]

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