Bariatric Center Spotlight:
Johns Hopkins Bariatric Surgery Center

Equipment Perspective:
Bariatric Bed Selection: One Center�s Experience
Lauren Spilsbury, RN, MSN

Event Perspective:
Walk from Obesity�2005
Liz Goldenberg from New York and Dr. Mal Fobi from California

Insurance Perspective:
Losing Weight Is Hard: Financing Can Make It Easier
Rob Morris

News Update:
Consortium for Excellence: A New Concept for Quality Improvement
Walter J. Pories, MD, FACS

Nutrition Perspective:
Comparison of Nutritional Therapy for Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch
Liz Goldenberg, MPH, RD, CDN, and Jaimie Sherry, MS, RD, CDN

Patient Perspective:
Insurance� Assurance or Nuisance?
Michael Jordan

Perspective:
Interview with Mathias A.L. Fobi, MD, FACS, FACN, FICS

Practice Management:
Accommodating the Obese Patient and Visitor in Healthcare Facilities
Stephen A. Wiser, AIA

Psychological Perspective:
A Study: Body Image and Sexual Functioning in Obese Patients Presenting for Bariatric Surgery
Varsha Vaidya, MD

Surgical Perspective:
Management of Skin Redundancy of the Abdomen in the Bariatric Patient
Michele Shermak, MD

Bariatric Center Spotlight:
The Obesity Consult Center at Tufts-New England Medical Center Boston, Massachusetts

Editorial Message:
The power and reality of a natural disaster in our land…
Raul J. Rosenthal, MD, FACS

Insurance Perspective:
Patient Access to Bariatric Surgery�With Commentary Following from Kenneth B. Jones, Jr., MD
by Mary Lou Walen and Michael Owens, MD, MPH, FACPE, CPE

Nutrition Perspective:
Postoperative Nutritional Assessment and Care of the Bariatric Surgery Patient
by Margaret Furtado, MS, RD, LD/N

Obstetrics Perspective:
PREGNANCY AFTER BARIATRIC SURGERY
by Emanuele Lo Menzo, MD, Ph.D; David Podkameni, MD; Emily Wong Swartz, RD, LD/N; Samuel Szomstein, MD, FACS; Raul J Rosenthal, MD, FACS

Patient Perspective:
Triathlon After Bariatric Surgery�From the Starting Line
by Doug Roberts

Review:
Energy Metabolism and Biochemistry of Obesity
by Sayeed Ikramuddin, MD; and Todd A. Kellogg, MD, PhD

Sociocultural Perspective:
Five Minutes with Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH�Tackling the American Culture of Obesity
Marion Nestle, Time magazine�s 2004 Obesity Warrior, is the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University. Her research focuses on analysis of the scientific, social, cultural, and economic factors that influence the development, implementation, and acceptance of federal dietary guidance policies. She is the author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health and Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism. Dr. Nestle gave Bariatric Times five minutes, which is time enough for us to ask her some questions regarding some of the most pressing and current issues surrounding the growing American culture of obesity.

Surgical Perspective:
Totally Robotic Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass: Overcoming Technological Limitations
by Geoffrey S. Nadzam, MD; and Myriam J. Curet, MD, FACS

Bariatric Center Spotlight:
The Bariatric Institute at Cleveland Clinic Florida�Weston, Florida

Nutrition Perspective:
Pica: Two Cases Following Gastric Bypass Surgery
by Victoria Shanta Retelny, RD, LD

Patient Management:
Exercise and the Bariatric Patient�An Interview with Harry Pino, PhD
Dr. Pino, PhD, is the Adjunct Instructor at Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and exercise physiologist for the Obesity Consult Center at New England Medical Center. Please address correspondence or questions to: Dr. Harry Pino, Tufts-New England Medical Center, 750 Washington St. Tufts-NEMC #900 Boston, MA 02111; Phone: (617) 636-9198; Fax: (617) 636-2386; E-mail: hpino@tufts-nemc.org.

Sociocultural Perspective:
SURGERY FOR OBESITY IN ADOLESCENTS: Should We Do It?
by Carlos A. Barba, MD, FACS, FRCSC