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Checklists in Bariatric Surgery: Diagnosis and Management of Anastomotic Leak or Staple Line Dehiscence after Gastric Bypass

| December 19, 2012 | 0 Comments

This month: Checklist #4: Diagnosis and Management of Anastomotic Leak or Staple Line Dehiscence after Gastric Bypass

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How to Place and Measure a Preanastomotic Ring

| December 19, 2012 | 0 Comments

Column Editors: Raul J. Rosenthal, MD, FACS, FASMBS, and Daniel B. Jones, MD, MS, FACS This Month’s Technique: How to Place and Measure a Preanastomotic Ring This Month’s Featured Expert: MAL Fobi, MD, FASMBS, FACS, FACN, FICS, Medical Director, Center for Surgical Treatment of Obesity, Saint Mary Medical Center, Long Beach, California, and Medical Director, […]

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Bariatric Surgery in Qatar: An Interview with Dr. Michel Gagner

| December 19, 2012 | 0 Comments

Since 2003, Michel Gagner, MD, FRCSC, FACS, FASMBS, FICS, AFC (Hon.), has been flying to and from Qatar, performing bariatric surgery on the most complex patient cases. In 2007, he was invited to take on the task of restructuring the bariatric program at Hamad General Hospital in Qatar’s capital city, Doha. He accepted the challenge […]

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ASMBS Foundation News and Update—December 2012

| December 19, 2012 | 0 Comments

by David Provost, MD

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ASMBS News and Update—December 2012

| December 19, 2012 | 0 Comments

by Jaime Ponce, MD, FACS, FASMBS Dr. Ponce is President, American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Medical Director for Bariatric Surgery, Hamilton Medical Center, Dalton Georgia; Co-Medical Director for Bariatric Surgery, Memorial Hospital, Chattanooga Tennessee

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Worlds Apart: the United States Military Bariatric Surgeons Excel in Vastly Different Arenas

| December 19, 2012 | 0 Comments

by LTC (p) Robert B. Lim, MD, FACS, and MAJ (p) William V. Rice, MD, FACS Dr. Robert Lim is Assistant Professor, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. William V. Rice is Director, Bariatric Surgery at William Beaumont Army Medical Center in El Paso, Texas.

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November Marks Awareness of Diabetes and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: Two Well-known Comorbidties in the Bariatric Patient Population

| November 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Let me start this editorial message by congratulating Georgeann Mallory and The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) on another outstanding Fall Educational Event in Las Vegas, Nevada. This year, attendance to the event was the highest it has ever been in its three-year run. Attendees enjoyed excellent, state-of-the-art […]

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Laparoscopic Hiatal Hernia Repair

| November 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

Column Editors: Raul J. Rosenthal, MD, FACS, FASMBS, and Daniel B. Jones, MD, MS, FACS This month’s technique: Laparoscopic Hiatal Hernia Repair This Month’s Featured Experts: Christopher Armstrong, MD, FRCSC, and  Ninh T. Nguyen, MD, FACS Both authors are from Department of Surgery, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California Bariatric Times. 2012;9(11):8–9

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Integrated Health Clinical Issues and Guidelines Committee Develops Upcoming Gastric Band Adjustment Credentialing Guidelines for Physician Extenders

| November 20, 2012 | 0 Comments

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 […]

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Obesity Action Coalition’s Your Weight Matters National Convention

| November 20, 2012 | 0 Comments

“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.

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