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Spotlight on Technology December 2024

Spotlight on Technology July–August 2023

Category: Bariatric Surgery
Metabolic Surgery Center at Baptist Hospital: Nashville, Tennessee

TELL US ABOUT THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE LEAD STAFF AT YOUR FACILITY. The Metabolic Surgery Center at Baptist Hospital currently has four surgeons, four nurses, and 11 staff

Laparoscopic Conversion of Failed Gastric Bypass to Duodenal Switch

Manish Parikh, MD; and Michel Gagner, MD, FRCSC, FACS Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida Objective. To report preliminary outcomes after laparoscopic conversion of gastric bypass

Therapists in Search of a Treatment Model: Adapting a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Model for Eating Disorders to a Bariatric Surgery Population, Part 2

by Merle C. Goldberg, LCSW; and Heidi M. Limbrunner, PsyD Merle Goldberg is in private practice in Silver Spring, Maryland, and is co-author of Weight Loss Surgery: Is It Right

Tobey Hospital Bariatric Center: Wareham, Massachusetts

TELL US ABOUT THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE LEAD STAFF AT YOUR FACILITY. Rayford Kruger, MD, FACS, is the lead gastric bypass surgeon and program director for the Tobey

An Event to Remember: Patients of Today, Models of Tomorrow

by Roseann DeLuca, BSN, RN Roseann is the Bariatric Coordinator, Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center, West Islip, New York.

Obesity and Male Genitourinary Disorders

by Mostafa Elmissiry, MD; Ayman Mahdy, MD; Gamal Ghoniem, MD, FACS All authors are from Cleveland Clinic Florida.

Endoscopic Therapies for the Dilated Gastrojejunostomy and Gastric Pouch: How to Achieve Weight Loss After the “Honeymoon” Is Over

by Daniel M. Herron, MD and Adheesh Sabnis, MD Column Editor: Marc Bessler, MD The following is the first column in a series that will appear quarterly in Metabolic &

Five Minutes with Robert Grant: The LAP-BAND AP® System

Robert E. Grant is the Corporate Vice President and President of Allergan Medical, a position he has held since joining Allergan in June of 2006.

Managing Weight Gain in a Bariatric Program

by Tracy Martinez, RN, BSN Ms. Martinez is Program Coordinator of Wittgrove Bariatric Center, La Jolla, California. Introduction Morbid obesity is a chronic disease for which we have no cure.

For the Record…

For the former members of the ASBS, the name change to ASMBS is just another consonant. For the rest of the world, it may be an epiphany…