Role Summary: Provides diagnosis, treatment, consultation, and follow-up under a supervising physician in compliance with the North Carolina Board of Nursing. Essential Accountabilities: 1. Provides medical care to patients in an outpatient or inpatient setting 2. Maintains complete, current, and accurate patient medical records 3. Diagnosis patient problem and provides treatment based on objective criteria 4. Establishes follow up and/or referral appointment based on the patient response to treatment 5. Other duties to support department and quality goals as assigned Required Education: Completion of an accredited physician assistant or family nurse practitioner program with appropriate certification exams. Required License: Have...
The Hospital of Central Connecticut is a 414-bed, two campus community teaching hospital located in scenic central Connecticut and a member of Hartford HealthCare, the largest health care system in Connecticut. We seek a Bariatric Surgeon to join the Metabolic Institute, a comprehensive weight management, diabetes and associated metabolic disease management service line that affords patients broad access to a multidisciplinary clinical team of bariatric/laparoscopic surgeons, non-surgical weight management physicians, endocrinologists, physician extenders and nurses, certified diabetes educators, clinical psychologists/behaviorists, dietitians and exercise physiologists. The Opportunity: • Hospital employed position offering outstanding compensation including generous incentives • State of the...
The Department of Surgery at Temple University School of Medicine (TUSM) is seeking qualified applicants and candidate nominations for Director, Temple Bariatric Surgery Program. The successful candidate must have experience in managing clinical/academic operations in an accredited Bariatric Surgery Program and have a strong belief in the multidisciplinary approach to weight loss. The Director will be responsible for developing and executing a strategy to expand the clinical, educational, and research activities of the program and will possess clinical expertise in open and laparoscopic gastric bypass, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding, and revisional bariatric procedures. Applicants must possess an MD or MD/PhD...
Exceptional People. Extraordinary Environment. St. Luke’s-Roosevelt, with two locations on Manhattan’s West Side, is an academic affiliate of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Widely respected for our high quality care, we are also known for reaching out to the diverse communities we serve – communities where many of our employees live. Our exceptional staff enjoys the family feel that comes from working with friends and neighbors, while benefiting from the tremendous support, stability and resources needed to help them grow and advance. Currently, we are looking for more people like them to join our exceptional team. We are...
On March 29, 2012, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services proposed coverage for laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) only as part of a randomized control trial The ASMBS Access to Care Response Team led by Robin Blackstone, President and John Morton, Chair, Access to Care responded to CMS the ASMBS CMS Response Letter regarding SG, vigorously defending the rightful coverage of LSG for CMS beneficiaries. In the letter, ASMBS provided ample evidence not previously reviewed by CMS including the NEJM STAMPEDE trial and two other prospective, controlled trials regarding LSG. Furthermore, CMS focused exclusively on Medicare beneficiaries whose age is...
Elsevier graciously agreed to provide electronic only subscriptions to SOARD for our military members. ASMBS membership dues will be $60 with the electronic subscription (a reduction of $315 for Regular membership). For active military members who would prefer copies of SOARD, their dues will be $160 (a reduction of $215 for Regular membership). For information about ASMBS Active Military Membership contact Barbara Peck, AMSBS Membership Director, at (Barbara@asmbs.org). The ASMBS is also providing a discounted registration to the 2012 Annual Conference....
Two of our ASMBS colleagues, Dr. Ninh Nguyen and Dr. Ed Phillips were recently inducted into the American Surgical Association (ASA) on April 25th, 2012. It is a remarkable accomplishment for surgeons in our organization to be recognized by the ASA, and we wish to extend our sincerest congratulations to our colleagues for this recognition. “The American Surgical Association was founded in 1880 and is the nation’s oldest and most prestigious surgical organization. Its members include the nation’s most prominent surgeons from the country’s leading academic medical institutions, many of whom are Chairs of the Departments of Surgery at these institutions....
Christian Shalgian Director Division of Advocacy and Health Policy American College of Surgeons 20 F St, NW Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20001 Email: cshalgian@facs.org Phone: 202-672-1504 April 27, 2012 Louis Jacques, MD Director, Coverage and Analysis Group Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services [submitted electronically] Re: Proposed Decision Memo for Bariatric Surgery for the Treatment of Morbid Obesity (CAG-00250R2) Dear Dr. Jacques: The American College of Surgeons (ACS) is a scientific and educational association of surgeons, founded in 1913, to improve the quality of care for the surgical patient by setting high standards...
Coding for Laparoscopic Gastric Plication/ Laparoscopic Greater Curve Plication: Laparoscopic Greater Curve Plication is a bariatric procedure developed in Iran and South America. The intent of the operation is to produce early and persistent satiety with small low calorie meals to effect significant weight loss. The conceptual basis for the operation is gastric volume reduction by inverting the stomach into itself and suturing it in this position. Published series from outside the United States report mobilization of the greater curve of the stomach, including the short gastric arteries, and then inversion/imbrication of the greater curve from the GE Junction to...
