Category: Departments
Are You AWARE? ASMBS Foundation Launches New Program
A Message from Foundation President Rami Lutfi, MD Dear Friends and Colleagues, As we approach the second half of 2019, I am excited to share with you new initiatives taking place within the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) Foundation. We began the year under the leadership of a new Executive Director, Michael […]
Matrix Medical Communications Reaches 1,000-certificate Milestone for Bariatric Times Integrated Health Continuing Education Department
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEST CHESTER, Pennsylvania, May 14, 2019 — Matrix Medical Communications, publisher of the peer-reviewed, monthly journal Bariatric Times (BT), announced today that more than 1,000 certificates of successful completion have been awarded to integrated health (IH) professionals through its widely read IH Continuing Education (CE) Department, which offers complimentary self-study CE activities […]
New Beginnings and Reflecting on Lessons Learned in 16 Years of Practice
By John M. Morton, MD, MPH, MHA, FACS, FASMBS, ABOM Clinical Editor of Bariatric Times; Vice-Chair of Quality and Division Chief of Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. Dear Friends and Readers, After 16 years of service for Stanford University, I have […]
Nonsurgical Therapy for Patients with Overweight and Obesity: Two New Devices Now Approved for Lower BMIs
By Christopher D. Still, DO, FACN, FACP Co-Clinical Editor of Bariatric Times; Medical Director for the Center for Nutrition and Weight Management, and Director for Geisinger Obesity Research Institute at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania. Disclosures: Dr. Still participated in the Gelesis Loss Of Weight (GLOW) pivotal trial; ClinicalTrials.gov identifier NCT03008954. Dear Friends and […]
Mesenteric Venous Thrombosis following Bariatric Surgery
This activity has expired. Course Overview Bariatric surgery has become the mainstay treatment for obesity with many thousands procedures performed annually. This article highlights the physiopathology, risks factors, clinical presentation, and treatment of mesenteric vein thrombosis, an uncommon but life-threatening complication that can occur after bariatric surgery. Course Description This continuing education course is designed […]
Raising the Standard: Enhanced Recovery Goals in Bariatric Surgery (ENERGY): The Second MBSAQIP National Quality Improvement Project
by Anthony T. Petrick, MD, FACS, FASMBS, and Dominick Gadaleta, MD, FACS, FASMBS Dr. Petrick is the Quality Director at Geisinger Surgical Institute and Director of Bariatric and Foregut Surgery for Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania. Dr. Gadaleta is Chair of the Department of Surgery at Southside Hospital and Director of Metabolic and Bariatric […]
Roux-en-O after Duodenal Switch: A Case Report
by Daniel Prior, DO; Thomas Magnuson, MD; Gina Adrales, MD; Hien Nguyen, MD; Alisa Coker, MD; and Michael Schweitzer, MD Drs. Prior, Magnuson, Adrales, Nguyen, Coker, and Schweitzer are with the Johns Hopkins University, Department of Bariatric Surgery, Baltimore, Maryland. Funding: No funding was provided. Disclosures: The authors report no conflicts of interest relevant to […]
Letter to the Editor: Tackling Weight Bias from All Sources
by Peter D. Vash, MD, MPH, FTOS Dr. Vash is the past executive medical director of The Lindora Medical Clinics and an assistant clinical professor of medicine at UCLA Medical Center. He has served as president for the American Society of Bariatric Physicians (ASBP), now known as the Obesity Medicine Association (OMA), and has served […]
