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Category: Society News
After 30 Years—New Guidelines for Weight Loss Surgery: Medical Groups Replace Outdated Consensus Statement that Overly Restricts Access to Modern-Day Weight Loss Surgery

NEWBERRY, FL – Oct. 21, 2022 – Two of the world’s leading authorities on bariatric and metabolic surgery have issued new evidence-based clinical guidelines that among a slew of recommendations

ISPCOP: An Update on How Far We Have Come in the Past 7 Years

by Anupama Wadhwa, MD; Roman Schumann, MD, FASA; Stephanie Jones, MD Dr. Wadhwa is with Norton Brownsboro Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Schumann a Professor of Anesthesiology at Tufts Medical

The ACS/SAGES Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery® Expands Internationally

Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times. 2015;12(4):12–13. An Interview with: Steven Schwaitzberg, MD Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Chief of Surgery, Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Massachusetts; SDS Chair, FLS Committee,

The Fundamental Use of Surgical Energy (FUSE) Program: Promoting Operating Room Safety

by Pascal Fuchshuber, MD, PhD, FACS; Amin Madani, MD; Daniel B. Jones, MD, MS, FACS; and Steven Schwaitzberg, MD Dr. Fuchshuber, Hepatobiliary and Oncologic Surgery, Associate Professor of Surgery, UCSF,

News from the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons

Metabolic & Bariatric Care Times. 2014;11(3):26–27. FUNDING: No funding was provided. DISCLOSURES: The author reports no conflicts of interest relevant to the content of this article. The mission of the

Spotlight on The National Association of Bariatric Nurses

by Laurie D. McGinley, DNP, MSN, APRN, CNS-BC, CBN Ms. McGinley is Program Coordinator, Western Bariatric Institute, Reno, Nevada. FUNDING: No funding was provided. DISCLOSURES: The author reports no conflicts

Development of the International Bariatric Club: A Worldwide Internet Network for Bariatric Surgeons

by Haris A. Khwaja, MD, PhD; Marius A. Nedelcu, MD; Manoel Galvão Neto, MD; Mervyn Deitel, MD; Philip R. Schauer, MD; and Tomasz G. Rogula, MD, PhD

International Society for the Perioperative Care of the Obese Patient

by Ashish Sinha, MD, PhD, DABA, and Anupama Wadhwa, MD Dr. Sinha is Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, and Assistant Professor of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery,