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Spotlight on Technology July–August 2023

Category: Bariatric Surgery
The Case for Metabolic Surgery: Lessons from the 4th World Congress on Therapeutic Interventions for Diabetes

by Adrian Dan, MD, FACS, FASMBS, Column Editor Dr. Dan is Medical Director, Weight Management Institute at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, and Associate Professor of Surgery at Northeastern Ohio

IFSO: A Closer Look at a Global Network of Bariatric Surgeons, Part 2

Estuardo Behrens, MD, MACG, FACS, FICS, FASMBS President IFSO Latin America Chapter; Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery, Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, New Life Center, Guatemala, Guatemala. M. Khalid Mirza, FRCS Director of

Raising the Standard: Operating Room Patient Safety Measures

by Walter Samojeden, RN, BSN, MBA, and Dominick Gadaleta, MD, FACS, FASMBS Mr. Samojeden is Assistant Director Perioperative Services, Southside Hospital, Northwell Health in Hempstead, New York. Dr. Gadaleta is

The Treat and Reduce Obesity Act of 2019

by Payal Sharma, MSN, RN, FNP-BC, CBN Ms. Sharma is a doctoral student at Yale University School of Nursing and Nurse Practitioner in General Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medicine. Funding:

New Year, Same Epidemic: How Clinicians Can Resolve to Make Obesity Management a Key Practice in 2020

by Craig Primack, MD, FACP, FAAP, FOMA, DABOM Dr. Primack is Medical Bariatrician/Certified Medical Obesity Specialist/Co-medical Director, Scottsdale Weight Loss Center PLLC, in Scottsdale, Arizona, and President of the Obesity

Preventing Burnout by Keeping Sane at Work

by Carl Pesta, DO, FASMBS Dr. Pesta is with McLaren Macomb Hospital in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Funding: No funding was provided. Disclosures: The author has no conflicts of interest relevant

The Top Three Things to Know about the Top Three Risk Management Issues

by Charles D. Cash, JD, LLM Mr. Cash is Assistant Vice President at PRMS, Inc. in Arlington, Virginia. Funding: No funding was provided for this article. Disclosures: The authors reports

Readers’ Choice: The Most-viewed Articles of 2019

These 10 articles were accessed most often on bariatrictimes.com in 2019. Weight Bias Among Healthcare Providers: We Have Met the Enemy and it is US—Nursing Accredited by Paul Davidson, PhD,

News and Notes from the December 2019 Issue of BT

by John M. Morton, MD, MPH, MHA, FACS, FASMBS, ABOM Clinical Editor of Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times; Vice-Chair of Quality and Division Chief of Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery