Course Co-Directors:
Brian Jacob, MD and Eric DeMaria, MD, FASMBS

*Up to 3.25 CME credits available.*

Course Overview and Target Audience:
This course will explore many of the current and future strategies in the management of weight loss failure after bariatric surgery. A fantastic international panel of leading surgeons from around the globe will share their thoughts and participate in a lively, interactive discussion.

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

• Identify and evaluate various etiologies contributing to weight loss failure after bariatric surgery
• Describe current surgical and nonsurgical techniques employed to treat weight loss failure after bariatric surgery.
• Describe the role of new and emerging techniques and procedures to treat weight loss failure after bariatric surgery

Maintenance of Certification:
For bariatric surgeons, surgeons new to the field of bariatric surgery and primary clinicians, this event will provide CME in their specific specialty to comply with Maintenance of Certification (MOC) in the following areas:  (1) Patient Care, (2) Medical Knowledge, (3) Systems-Based Practice, and (4) Practice-Based Learning and Improvement.

Course Outline:

1:00 pm
Welcome and Introduction – Brian Jacob, MD, and Eric DeMaria, MD, FASMBS

1:05 pm
Calories In and Calories Burned:  It is Simple Mathematics, So Why Don’t These Operations Last Forever?
– Scott Shikora, MD, FASMBS

1:20 pm
Patient Assessment for Weight Regain after Bariatric Surgery: What is the Appropriate Work Up?
– Kelvin Higa, MD, FASMBS

1:35 pm
Patient Assessment for Weight Regain after Bariatric Surgery:  Is a Referral to a Nutritionist and Psychologist Indicated? – Liz Goldenberg, MPH, RD, CDN

1:55 pm
Are Hormones to Blame? Pathophysiology Associated with Weight Regain – Brian Jacob, MD

2:10 pm
Panel Discussion

2:20 pm
Weight Regain After a Laparoscopic Gastric Band – Eric DeMaria, MD, FASMBS

2:40 pm
Weight Regain After a Sleeve Gastrectomy – Gregg Jossart, MD

3:00pm
Refreshment Break

3:45 pm
Weight Regain After a Gastric Bypass – Marc Bessler, MD, FASMBS

4:00 pm
Outcomes After Conversion to BPD/DS for Weight Regain After Failed Bariatric Surgery – Mitch Roslin, MD

4:15 pm
Gastric Imbrication as a Revisional Procedure for Weight Regain, Really? – Philip Schauer, MD, FASMBS

4:35 pm
Nonsurgical Options (endoluminal and behavioral) To Treat Weight Regain After Failed Sleeve & Bypass – Bipan Chand, MD, FASMBS

4:50pm
Panel Discussion and Closing Remarks

5:00 pm
Adjourn