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
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ASMBS Minnesota State Chapter Annual Meeting
Bloomington, MN
April 21, 2023
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ASMBS Minnesota State Chapter Annual Meeting
Bloomington, MN
April 21, 2022
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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
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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
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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
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February 9, 2018 5PM-9PM – Winter Meeting
Radisson Blu Mall of America
2100 Killebrew Drive, Bloomington, MN 55425
Phone: 952-881-5258
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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.