Author Archive: BT Online Editor
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]