*Up to 8.0 CE credits are available.*

Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Identify common practice challenges and network with colleagues to discuss potential solutions.
• Describe measures to increase patient volume and profitability, as well as improve patient and employee satisfaction.
• Explain the benefits of a clinical pharmacy consulting service within a bariatric surgery program.
• Summarize the indications for revisonal surgery for patients s/p adjustable gastric band placement.
• Cite the impact of pre-surgery alcohol problems with the postoperative bariatric surgery population.
• Describe the impact of diet-induced themogenesis on weight loss in the gastric bypass patient.

Course Outline:

7:00am
Registration

Session I
Moderator:  Karen Flanders, NP, CBN

7:45am
Welcome and Introduction – Maureen Quigley, APRN

7:50am
IH-101.  INCREASED DIET-INDUCED THERMOGENESIS AFTER ROUX-Y GASTRIC BYPASS – Silvia L. Faria, MS; Orlando Faria, MD; Heloisa Gouvea; Mariane Cardeal; Cynthia Buffington, PhD

8:05am
IH-102.  RHEOSTAT (REACTIVE HYPOGLYCAEMIA EXAMINATION OF SYMPTOM STATISTICS): A TOOL FOR SCORING AND INVESTIGATING HYPOGLYCAEMIA FOLLOWING GASTRIC BYPASS – Conor Magee, MD, FRCS; Ken Clare; David D. Kerrigan, MD

8:20am
IH-103.  CHARACTERISTICS OF CHILDHOOD FEEDING PRACTICES – David Sarwer, PhD; Sara Walters-Bugbee, Psy.D; Kelly S. McClure, PhD; Tanja V. Kral, PhD; Lisa West-Smith, PhD, LCSW; Rebecca Dilks, RD, LDN;

8:35am
IH-104.  THE IMPACT OF A CLINICAL PHARMACY CONSULTING SERVICE ON THE BARIATRIC SURGERY PATIENT POPULATION – Tyson J. Thornton, PharmD; Michelle Toder, MD

8:50am
IH-105.  BEST PRACTICES THAT RESULT IN INCREASED PROFITABILITY AND PERFORMANCE – Kerrie A. Warne

9:05AM
IH SECTION PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS – Laura Boyer, RN, CBN
Introduction by Robin Blackstone, MD, FASMBS, FACS, ASMBS President

9:45am
Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall

Session II
Moderator:  Jill Meador, RN, BSN, CBN

10:30am
IH-106.  LONGITUDINAL ASSESSMENT OF BARIATRIC SURGERY (LABS): RETENTION STRATEGY AND RESULTS AT 24 MONTHS – William  F. Gourash, MSN, CRNP; Abidemi  Adeniji; Steven Belle, PhD, MScHyg; Chelsea Cassady, BS; Jessie Eagleton, BS; Faith Ebel, RD, MS, MPH; Laurie Koozer, MFA; Harrison Lobdell; Anne MacDougall, BA; Walter J. Pories, MD, FASMBS; Bruce Wolfe, MD, FASMBS

10:45am
IH-107.  ALCOHOL PROBLEMS BEFORE AND IN THE FIRST TWO YEARS FOLLOWING BARIATRIC SURGERY – Wendy C. King, PhD; Melissa A. Kalarchian, MS, PhD; Jia-Yuh Chen, MS; Anita P. Courcoulas, MD, FASMBS; Scott G. Engel; James E. Mitchell, MD; Walter J. Pories, MD, FASMBS; Kristine Steffen, PharmD; Susan Yanovski, MD

11:00am
INVITED GUEST SPEAKER – Morgan Downey, Esq.
Obesity from 30,000 Feet: Toward a Realistic Obesity Policy

11:45am
Lunch Served in the Exhibit Hall

Session III
Moderator: Kelli Friedman, PhD  

1:15pm
AWARDS PRESENTATION – Maureen Quigley, APRN

1:25 pm
SYMPOSIUM:  MULTIDISCIPLINARY DISCUSSION OF REVISION AFTER FAILED GASTRIC BYPASS – Leslie Heinberg, PhD; Cassie Truran, RD; Kelvin Higa, MD, FASMBS

2:10pm
Workshop 1: IH-108: FOOD ADDICTION DEBATE:  MYTH OR REALITY? – Connie Stapleton, PhD and Stephanie Sogg, PhD

Workshop 2: HOW TO RETAIN, CONVERT AND EDUCATE PATIENTS USING WEB-BASED PROGRAMS:
(1) IH-109: Preoperative Bariatric Surgery Patient Retention – Rebecca Aschoff, RN, CBN; Wayne Weiss, MD; Peter Kwon, MD, FASMBS
(2) IH-110: Use of Web-based Programs for Bariatric Patient Education, Participation, and Public Education – Patricia Toor,  RN, BA, MSN, OCN; Keith Kim, MD; Cynthia Buffington, PhD

Workshop 3: INTEGRATING SOCIAL MEDIA INTO YOUR BARIATRIC PROGRAM –
Pam Davis, RN, CBN, CCM

Workshop 4: HOW TO INCORPORATE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY INTO CLINICAL CARE –
Dale Bond, PhD and Wendy King, PhD

Workshop 5: CLINICAL DILEMMAS IN PRE-SURGICAL PSYCHOSOCIAL EVALUATION AND BEYOND: WHAT WOULD YOU DO? – Lisa West-Smith, PhD

Workshop 6: NUTRITION: OPTIMIZING RESOURCES IN MEAL PLANNING AND PREPARATION – Sharon Zarabi, RD, CDN, CPT

2:50pm
Adjourn Workshops

2:55pm
Workshops (Repeated)

3:40pm
Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall

4:15pm
Professional Networking

• Exercise/Physical Fitness – Catherine Tuppo, PT
• Advanced Practice Nursing/Physician Assistant – Allison Cobb, FNP, BC and Alison Olsen, MS, PA-C
• Nursing – Sue Bunnell, RN, BS, CBN
• Nutrition – Julie Parrott, MS, RD, LD
• Practice Management – Anita Houle
• Behavioral Health – Stephen Ritz, PhD

5:15pm
Adjourn