Author Archive: BT Online Editor
Patient Presentation for Inadequate Weight Loss or Weight Recurrence and Anti-obesity Medications
by Marina Kurian, MD, FACS, FASMBS, DABOM, DABS Dr. Kurian is Director, New York Minimally Invasive Surgery, PLLC, and Clinical Professor of Surgery, NYU Langone Health in New York, New York. Funding: This supplement was sponsored by Medtronic. Disclosures: Dr. Kurian is a speaker for Vivus. Bariatric Times. 2023;20(5–6 Suppl):S10–S11. Key Points Anti-obesity medications (AOMs) […]
Pathophysiology of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
by Katherine Kendrick, MD, and Shanu N. Kothari, MD, FACS, FASMBS Dr. Kendrick is with the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Prisma Health Upstate-Greenville Memorial Hospital in Greenville, South Carolina. Dr. Kothari is with University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville and Prisma Health Upstate in Greenville, South Carolina. Funding: This supplement was sponsored […]
The Optimal Sleeve Technique to Mitigate Reflux-related Revisions
by Gregg H. Jossart, MD, FACS, FASMBS Dr. Jossart is Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery, California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, California. Funding: This supplement was sponsored by Medtronic. Disclosures: The author has no conflicts of interest relevant to the content of this article. Bariatric Times. 2023;20(5–6 Suppl 1):S6–S7. Key Points Reflux, esophagitis, and hiatal […]
Conversion of Sleeve Gastrectomy to OAGB
by Helmuth T. Billy, MD Dr. Billy is with Ventura Advanced Surgical Associates in Ventura, California; Medical Director, Bariatric Surgery, St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard, California; and Medical Director, Bariatric Surgery, Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, California. Funding: This supplement was sponsored by Medtronic. Disclosures: Dr. Billy is a speaker for Medtronic, Lexington […]
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, […]
Combined Therapies for Obesity: The Dawn of a New Era!
by Adrian G. Dan, MD, FACS, FASMBS Dr. Dan is Medical Director, Weight Management Institute at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, and Associate Professor of Surgery at Northeastern Ohio Medical University (NEOMED) in Rootstown, Ohio. Funding: No funding was provided. Disclosures: The authors have no conflicts of interest relevant to the content of this article. Bariatric Times. […]
Unintended Benefit of GLP-1 Treatment for Obesity: Resolution of Chronic Systemic Mastocytosis Symptoms
by George Woodman, MD, FACS, FASMBS; Alexander Wells, BS; Gregory A. Hanissian, MD; and Guy Voeller, MD Dr. Woodman is with Baptist Memorial Hospital–Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee, and Methodist Hospital Germantown in Germantown, Tennessee. Mr. Wells is a medical student at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. Hanissian is with […]
