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4 Editorial Board Bariatric Times • January 2014 Editorial Advisory Board CLINICAL EDITOR Raul J. Rosenthal, MD, FACS Professor of Surgery and Chairman, Department of General Surgery; Director, The Bariatric and Metabolic Institute; Director, General Surgery Residency Program and Fellowship in Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Florida— Weston, Fort Lauderdale, Florida EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Ahmed R. Ahmed, BSc(Hons), FRCS(Gen) Consultant Upper GI and Bariatric Surgeon, Charing Cross Hospital, London, United Kingdom Peter Benotti, MD, FACS St. Francis Medical Center Trenton, New Jersey Marc Bessler, MD Leslie J. Heinberg, PhD Professor, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, BMI Director of Behavioral Services, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio Kelvin Higa, MD, FACS Clinical Professor in Surgery, UCSF-FRESNO, Director, Bariatric and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Fresno, California Kevin Huffman, DO Obesity Medicine Specialist, Founder and President of American Bariatric Consultants Matthew M. Hutter, MD, MPH General and Laparoscopic Surgery, Department of Surgery; Director, Codman Center for Clinical Effectiveness In Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital Weight Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Sayeed Ikramuddin, MD, FACS Surgical Director, New York-Presbyterian Hospital Center for Obesity Surgery, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York University of Minnesota, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota Robin Blackstone, MD, FACS Thomas H. Inge, MD, PhD, FACS, FAAP Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery, University of Arizona School of MedicinePhoenix; Medical Director, Scottsdale Healthcare Bariatric Center, Scottsdale, Arizona, .ASMBS, Past-President Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, Surgical Weight Loss Program for Teens, Division of Pediatric General and Thoracic Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio Laura Boyer, RN, CBN Daniel B. Jones, MD, FACS Director of Clinical Systems,The Surgical Specialists of Louisiana; The Surgical Specialists of Mississippi, Covington, Louisiana Chief, Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Jay B. Brodsky, MD Stephanie B. Jones, MD Professor (Anesthesia), Medical Director— Perioperative Services, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California Rafael F. Capella, MD, FACS Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey Ricardo Cohen, MD The Center of Excellence for the Surgical Treatment of Obesity and Metabolic DisordersOswaldo Cruz Hospital, São Paulo, Brazil Janelle W. Coughlin, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland Lillian Craggs-Dino, DHA, RDN, LDN, CLT Bariatric and Metabolic Institute Support Group Coordinator, Cleveland Clinic Florida Eric J. DeMaria, MD New Hope Wellness Center, Raleigh, North Carolina Terrence M. Fullum, MD, FACS Associate Professor of Surgery, Howard University College of Medicine, Chief, Division of General Surgery, Chief, Division of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Director, Howard University Center for Wellness and Weight Loss Surgery, Howard University Hospital, Washington, District of Columbia Michel Gagner, MD, FRCSC, FACS, FASMBS, FICS, AFC (Hon.) Clinical Professor of Surgery; Chief, Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar. Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School; Vice Chair for Education and Residency Program; Director, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts Gregg H. Jossart, MD, FACS Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California Kazunori Kasama, MD Director, Department of Weight Loss Surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery Center, Yotsuya Medical Cube, Tokyo, Japan Marina S. Kurian, MD Medical Director, Department of Surgery, Bariatric Division at New York University (NYU) Langone Medical Center, New York, New York Robert B. Lim, MD, FACS Assistant Professor, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences; Chair, Metabolic, Bariatric and Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii Liz Goldenberg, MPH, RD Nutritionist, Weill Medical College of Cornell University; New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York Karen B. Grothe, PhD, ABPP, LP Assistant Professor of Psychology; Program Director, Obesity Program; Specialty Director, Clinical Health Psychology Fellowship; Mayo Clinic, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Rochester, Minnesota Giselle G. Hamad, MD, FACS Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Melodie K. Moorehead, PhD, ABPP Board Certified in Clinical Health Psychology, JFK Medical Center; Bariatric Wellness and Surgical Institute, Atlantis, Florida John Morton, MD, MPH, FACS Associate Professor of Surgery; Section Chief, Minimally Invasive Surgery; Director of Quality, Surgery and Surgical Sub-Specialties; Director of Bariatric Surgery, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California Michel M. Murr, MD, FACS Director of Bariatric Surgery, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa General Hospital, Tampa, Florida Martin I. Newman, MD, FACS Department of Plastic Surgery, Associate Program Director, Education Director, Weston, Diplomate American Board of Surgery, Diplomate American Board of Plastic Surgery Weston, Florida Ninh T. Nguyen, MD Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center, Department of Anesthesiology, Boston, Massachusetts Wendy Scinta, MD, MS, FAAFP Medical Director, Medical Weight Loss of NY, BOUNCE Program for Childhood Obesity, Fayetteville, New York; Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York Michael Schweitzer, MD, FACS Associate Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Director of Minimally Invasive Bariatric Surgery, Baltimore, Maryland Shashank Shah, MBBS, MS, FAIS, FMAS (hon) Director, Department of Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery-Ruby Hall Clinic, Pune, and Dr. L.H. Hiranandani Hospital, Mumbai, Maharastra, India Edward Shang, MD Professor of Surgery, Head of Bariatric Surgery, Universityhospital Leipzig, Germany Professor of Surgery, Chief, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery, University of California Irvine Medical Center, Irvine, California Michele A. Shermak, MD Jürgen Ordemann, MD, PhD Director, Bariatric Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Assistant Professor of Surgery, Chief, Unit of Bariatric Surgery, Department of General, Visceral, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Germany Edward Phillips, MD, FACS Director, Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery, Director of Endoscopic Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California Harry Pino, PhD Director of Clinical Exercise Physiology Program, RecoverHealth Center, New York, New York Alfons Pomp, MD, FACS, FRCSC Leon C. Hirsch Professor; Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery; Chief, Section of Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery; Weill Medical College of Cornell University; New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York Jaime Ponce, MD, FACS The Plastic Surgery Center of Maryland, Lutherville, Maryland Scott Shikora, MD Christopher D. Still, DO, FACN, FACP Director, Center for Nutrition and Weight Management, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania Prof. Dr. Michel Suter Chief Surgeon, Hôpital du Chablais, Switzerland; Responsible surgeon for bariatric surgery, Department of Visceral Surgery, Lausanne, Switzerland Samuel Szomstein, MD, FACS Associate Director Bariatric and Metabolic Institute and Division of MIS, Director Bariatric Endoscopy, Cleveland Clinic Florida; Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery, NOVA Southeastern University, Weston, Florida Antonio J. Torres MD, PhD, FACS, FASMBS Professor of Surgery, Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Andrew Ukleja, MD, AGAF, CNSP Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, The Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, Cleveland Clinic Florida Professor of Surgery, Biochemistry, Sport and Exercise Medicine, Director, Bariatric Surgery Research Program, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University David Mahony, PhD, ABPP Craig B. Primack, MD, FAAP Rudolf A. Weiner, MD Emanuele Lo Menzo, MD, PhD, FACS, FASMBS Tracy Martinez, RN, BSN, CBN Professor and Chair, Department of Surgery, UMDNJ-SOM, Stratford, New Jersey Roman Schumann, MD Associate Professor of Surgery, Head of the Surgical Department, Hallein Clinic, Hallein, Austria Walter J. Pories, MD, FACS Director, Emory Endosurgery Unit, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia Manoel Galvao Neto, MD Alex Gandsas, MD, MBA, FACS Karl Miller, MD, FACS Associate Professor of Psychology, Departments of Psychiatry and Surgery, Director of Clinical Services, Center for Weight and Eating Disorders, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academic Department of Surgery, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom Edward Lin, DO, FACS Houston, Texas Gastro Obeso Center, São Paulo, Brazil David B. Sarwer, PhD Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery; Surgical Director, Center for Healthy Weight and Nutrition, Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Columbus, Ohio Medical Director, Bariatric Surgery Program, Hamilton Medical Center, Dalton, Georgia and Memorial Hospital, Chattanooga, Tennessee; ASMBS President; Chair, ASMBS Insurance Committee; Vice-President, ASMBS Tennessee State Chapter Senior Psychologist, Industrial Medicine Associates, Tarrytown, New York; Director of Behavioral Healthcare Assessment Instruments, Obesity Prevention, Policy and Management, Chantilly, Virginia Susan Gallagher Camden, RN, MSN, MA, CWOCN, PhD Marc P. Michalsky, MD, FACS, FAAP Program Director, Wittgrove Bariatric Center, La Jolla, California Samer G. Mattar, MD, FACS, FRCS, FASMBS Associate Professor Surgery, Indiana University; Medical Director, IU Health Bariatric & Medical Weight Loss; Director, Indiana University Advanced Laparoscopic Fellowship Program, Indianapolis, Indiana Laurie Duquette McGinley, DNP, MSN, CNS-BC, APN, CBN Bariatric Program Coordinator, Reno, Nevada Amir Mehran, MD Director of Bariatric Surgery; Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery, UCLA Department of Surgery, Los Angeles, California Joseph Michaels V, MD Plastic Surgeon, Private Practice, North Bethesda, Maryland Medical Bariatrician/Certified Medical Obesity Specialist/Co-Medical Director, Scottsdale Weight Loss Center PLLC, Scottsdale, Arizona Olga Tucker, MD, FRCSI Assistant Professor of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton; Department of Gastroenterology, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Weston, Florida Provost Bariatrics, Denton, Texas Professor of Surgery, Frankfurt Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Head of the Departement of Surgery of the Frankfurt Sachsenhausen Hospital, Center For Bariatric Surgery, Center for Minimally Surgery, Frankfort, Germany Aurora D. Pryor, MD Noel N. Williams, MD, MCh, FRCSI, FRCS David A. Provost, MD Professor of Surgery, Chief of General Surgery, Laparoscopic, Bariatric, and General Surgery, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, New York Director of Bariatric Program, Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Alan Wittgrove, MD Almino C. Ramos, MD Gastro Obeso Center, São Paulo, Brazil Medical Director, Wittgrove Bariatric Center, La Jolla, California Christine Ren-Fielding, MD Natan Zundel, MD, FACS Associate Professor of Surgery, NYU School of Medicine, Director, NYU Langone Weight Management Program, New York, New York Alan A. Saber, MD, FACS Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Comprehensive Metabolic and Bariatric Treatment Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio Michael G. Sarr, MD Professor of Surgery, Division of Gastroenterologic and General Surgery, Gastrointestinal Research Unit (GU 10-01), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota Clinical Professor of Surgery, Florida International University College of Medicine, Miami, Florida