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jmortonmd

@Jmortonmd

Professor & Vice-Chair, Dedicated to Public Health via Access, Quality & Treating #Obesity, Past-President@ASMBS, Inaugural MBSAQIP Chair@AmCollSurgeons, @yale

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Please join us for a Festschrift of Professor Walter Pories
Learn about this icon of surgery- fled nazi germany, veteran, Chair of Surgery, nih funded,discovered zinc’s role and bariatric surgery’s benefit for diabetes- what a life!
youtu.be/KBGMaJg7xto?si…
*WHEN*: June 8, 2024,…

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Looking forward to 20th Annual Yale Healthcare Conference ⭐️
45+ esteemed academia and industry experts to come together on April 12th to speak, explore, and inspire innovate solutions for the future of healthcare. Join in-person or virtually for a full day of sessions and…

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Huge achievement- can we finally get an fda approved drug for nash/mash?- similar improvements in bariatric surgery pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34762106/ congratulations! Boehringer Ingelheim

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Not surprising that the Greek god of medicine, Apollo, was also the god of music- both and require passion, touch, rigor and practice!

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Low testosterone? Try weight loss if your bmi is >35 and you are a male- doubles with surgical weight loss-pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22302466/

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Thank you- lots of benefit to bariatric surgery including adding life to years and years to life - increasing both quantity and quality of life- mortality at 12 years decreased by 40% when having bariatric surgery vs not- an amazing intervention!

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Can’t have one without the other- prevention & treatment- treatment results in tertiary prevention of comorbidity and can induce prevention- collateral or second hand weight loss exists- my study &others
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22006878/
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24989939/
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

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Actually this not true and actually treating the root of obesity-associated hypogonadism (GLP, surgery etc) is appropriate as noted by Dr. Spencer Nadolsky . AACE Endocrine Society The Obesity Society ASMBS mdpi.com/1422-0067/23/1…

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