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Chapter Information

Incorporated March 2015

Executive Officers

President: Girish Luthra, MBBS
Past Presidents: Bradley C. Linden, MD; Todd Kellogg, MD; Howard McCollister, MD; Charles Allen Svendsen, MD FASMBS
Vice President/President Elect: Jayson Dock, MD
Treasurer: Juan Jose Blondet-Teixeira, MD FACS
Secretary: Avri Bock, PA-C
Integrated Health Chair: Open
Access to Care State Representative (STAR): Geoffrey Fasen, MD
Integrated Health Access to Care State Representative (STAR): Hannah Osterndorf, LD

Contact

Girish Luthra, MBBS
3931 Louisiana Ave. S.
Suite W200 St. Louis Park, MN 55426

Chapter Meetings

  • ASMBS Minnesota State Chapter Annual Meeting
    Bloomington, MN
    April 21, 2023
    Please check back soon for more information!

  • ASMBS Minnesota State Chapter Annual Meeting
    Bloomington, MN
    April 21, 2022
    Please check back soon for more information!

  • 2020-2021: We have polled our chapter membership and postponed the annual meeting until there is greater safety and certainty that an in-person meeting can be held

  • February 7th, 2020 – ASMBS Minnesota Chapter Winter Meeting
    Time: 5pm-9:30pm
    Radisson Blu Mall of America
    2100 Kilebrew Dr.
    Bloomington, MN 55425
    Phone 952-881-5258
    Hotel Website

  • Minnesota State Chapter Meeting at ObesityWeek 2019
    Tuesday, November 5
    5:15-7:15pm Pacific
    Mandalay Bay, 3950 S Las Vegas Blvd., Las Vegas, NV 89119, Room K-MB – Level 2

  • February 8th, 2019 – ASMBS Minnesota Chapter Winter Meeting
    Time: 5pm-9:30pm
    Radisson Blu Mall of America
    2100 Kilebrew Dr., Bloomington, MN 55425
    Phone 952-881-5258
    Hotel Website

  • February 9, 2018 5PM-9PM – Winter Meeting
    Radisson Blu Mall of America
    2100 Killebrew Drive, Bloomington, MN 55425
    Phone: 952-881-5258
    www.radissonblumoa.com

  • Minnesota State Chapter Meeting at ObesityWeek 2016 in New Orleans, LA
    Wednesday, November 2, 2016
    6:15-7:15pm Central
    Hilton New Orleans Riverside Newberry Room

  • January 16, 2016 6PM-10PM – Winter Meeting
    Radisson Blu Mall of America
    2100 Killebrew Drive, Bloomington, MN 55425
    Phone: 952-881-5258

Chapter News

  • 2023 Meeting planned for April 21 at Allina Commons. The topic of the meeting will be: You had a sleeve, now what? Keynote speaker: Dr. Brian Smith, MD. Professor of Surgery University of California, Irvine
  • Shifting tides of Health Care system acquisition of practices. Health East Group now owned by the University of MN and Fairview Health.
  • We have experienced BCBS limitation of access to care that many other states have seen.

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