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Turkey Creek Medical Center Tennova Center for Surgical Weight Loss

Knoxville, Tennessee by Jessica Flanary, RN, BA, BSN, CBN

Introducing “Ask the Leadership.” This month ASMBS President-Elect Dr. Ninh Nguyen Discusses the Controversy Surrounding Accredited Bariatric Centers

Dear friends, colleagues, and readers of Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times: With the advent of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) and the previous popularity and, in my opinion, excessive use of

NEW COLUMN: Ask the Leadership with Raul J. Rosenthal, MD, FACS, FASMBS

This column is dedicated to sharing the vast knowledge and opinions of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery leadership on relevant topics in the field of bariatric surgery.

Checklists in Bariatric Surgery: Management of Hernias during Bariatric Surgery

by Raul J. Rosenthal, MD, FACS, FASMBS; Samuel Szomstein, MD, FACS, FASMBS; and Emanuele Lo Menzo, MD, PhD, FACS, FASMBS Welcome to “Checklists in Bariatric Surgery.” This column’s aim is

Recommended Levels of Carbohydrate after Bariatric Surgery

by Silvia Leite Faria, MSc, RD; Orlando Pereira Faria, MD; Mariane de Almeida Cardeal; Heloísa Rodriguez de Gouvêa; Cynthia Buffington, PhD; and Margaret Furtado, MSc, RD

How to Convert an Adjustable Gastric Band Procedure to a Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

This column recruits expert surgeons to share step-by-step technical pearls on bariatric procedures. Column Editors: Raul J. Rosenthal, MD, FACS, FASMBS, and Daniel B. Jones, MD, MS, FACS This Month’s

Successful Anesthetic Management of Rigid Bronchoscopy-Guided Percutaneous Tracheostomy in a Patient with Morbid Obesity

This ongoing column is authored by members of the International Society for the Perioperative Care of the Obese Patient (ISPCOP), an organization dedicated to the bariatric patient. Column Editor: Stephanie

Countdown to Obesity Week 2013

Interview #3: Francesca Dea Starting in 2013, the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) and The Obesity Society (TOS) will co-locate their respective annual meetings under one roof.

Helping Your Patients Achieve Exercise Success

by Diane E. Weiman, A.C.E. CERTIFIED Diane Weiman (A.C.E certified) is an exercise specialist for Upper Chesapeake Bariatric Surgery at Harford Memorial Hospital in Havre de Grace, Maryland.

“Medicine is Changing and So Should We:” Commentary on the New Proposed Guidelines of the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program

Dear friends, colleagues, and readers of Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times: By now you may be familiar with the controversy that was recently unleashed following the release of the new