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ASMBS Position Statement on Medium- and Long-term Durability of Weight Loss and...

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New Study Finds Most Bariatric Surgeries Performed in Northeast, and Fewest in...

West Virginia and Mississippi may have the two highest obesity rates in the nation but rank 25th and 45th in...

Weight-loss Surgery Reduces Risk of Coronary Heart Disease By 40 Percent

Patients with severe obesity who get weight-loss surgery cut their risk of developing coronary heart disease by about 40 percent,...

Metabolic Surgery Significantly Better Than Drug Therapy

People with diabetes and severe obesity who had metabolic surgery were much less likely to die from diabetes or any...

Mortality From Heart Failure Cut in Half in Weight-loss Surgery Patients

New Cleveland Clinic Study Shows Bariatric Surgery May Have Protective Effect After Heart Failure Patients who have previously undergone weight-loss...
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IRB Documents

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ASMBS and AHS Consensus Guideline on Bariatric Surgery and Hernia Surgery

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Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass – Hand-sewn

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September/October 2018 ASMBS Advocacy Report

Prepared by Chris Gallagher, OCC Washington Representative In this report: OCAN Fall Advocacy Day, USPSTF Final Recommendations on Obesity Counseling,...

Health Equity Committee

Charles Thompson MD FACSChair Crystal Johnson-MannMD MPH FACS FASMBSCo-Chair Rana PullattMD FACS FASMBS Board of Director Liaison ASMBS Staff Partners...