Category: Past Articles
Integrated Health Clinical Issues and Guidelines Committee Develops Upcoming Gastric Band Adjustment Credentialing Guidelines for Physician Extenders
Hot Topics in Integrated Health Column Editor: Karen Schulz, RN, APN, President of the Integrated Health Section of the ASMBS; Clinical Nurse Specialist, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio. This month’s column by Lisa West-Smith, PhD, LCSW, and Pam Davis, RN, CBN Lisa West-Smith, is Co-Chair, ASMBS Integrated Health Clinical Issues and Guidelines Committee. She […]
Obesity Action Coalition’s Your Weight Matters National Convention
“Explore. Discover. Empower.” Dallas, Texas October 25 to 28, 2012 by James Zervios James Zervios is the Director of Communications for the Obesity Action Coalition.
Emesis and Other Complications Post Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Surgery
by Hira Ahmad, MD; Savannah Moon, MS-IV; and J. Patrick O’Leary, MD, FACS Hira Ahmad, MD is PGY-1 Resident at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Florida. Savannah Moon is a fourth year medical student from Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. J. Patrick O’Leary, MD, FACS, is Executive Associate […]
The At-risk Gastric Remnant Following Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
by Terrence M. Fullum, MD; Purnell Traverso, MD; Gezzer Ortega, MD, MpH; Kenedy Foryoung, BS; Tolulope A. Oyetunji, MD, MPH; and Edward E. Cornwell, III, MD All authors are from the Departments of Surgery, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia.
The American Society of Bariatric Physicians: Growth and Change
by David A. Bryman, DO Dr. Bryman is the 2011-2013 president of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians and maintains his own obesity treatment clinic in Phoenix, Arizona. He also is an adjunct clinical professor at the Midwestern University Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine in Glendale, Arizona.
