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It’s a wrap! Great PA ⁦ASMBS⁩ ⁦⁦ASMBS IH⁩ meeting with amazing talks and information! It was great meeting other healthcare professionals who feel passionate about obesity care! ⁦@AnnMRogersMD⁩ ⁦Faiz Shariff, MD⁩ ⁦Victoria Gershuni, MD MS MTR⁩ ⁦PennSurgery⁩

Excited for ⁦SAGES is in Tampa in 2026!⁩ 2024! Looking forward to catching up with old friends and making new! Very excited about ⁦PennSurgery⁩ presence at the meeting! ⁦Dan Hashimoto, MD MS FACS⁩ ⁦Victoria Gershuni, MD MS MTR⁩ ⁦Claire Rosen, MD MSME⁩ ⁦Amanda Bader⁩ ⁦⁦Nicole M Saur, MD⁩

Great presentation ⁦PennSurgery⁩ resident ⁦⁦Neha Shafique, MD⁩ ⁦showcasing a case performed with ⁦Victoria Gershuni, MD MS MTR⁩ at ⁦⁦SAGES is in Tampa in 2026!⁩ . ⁦Nicole M Saur, MD⁩ ⁦Dan Hashimoto, MD MS FACS⁩

Proud of PennSurgery PGY-4 Neha Shafique, MD on a fantastic video presentation of our robotic transhiatal esophageal diverticulectomy w myotomy and hiatal hernia repair! Thanks Maria Altieri Ian S Soriano 🇵🇭 Noel Williams Emna Bakillah Claire Rosen, MD MSME

Congratulations to our (5) Naji Research Day finalists! Raheema Damani PI: Victoria Gershuni, MD MS MTR Katlin Dlugosz, PA Pl: Niels D. Martin, MD, FACS, FCCM Zoe Gan, MD PI: Ariana L Smith

Incredibly proud of shubha (she/her) for presenting our complex case of Robotic repair of giant para-hiatal hernia SSAT. Penn Medicine PennSurgery #ilooklikeasurgeon #DDW2024 #SSAT2024

Congrats to PennSurgery Measey scholar shubha (she/her) on her first podium presentation! She worked with robotic surgeon extraordinaire Victoria Gershuni, MD MS MTR on the presentation at #DDW2024 She's not even a medical student yet!

Lots of familiar faces in this group. CONGRATULATIONS!!! Penn Surgery grads inducted to ACS fellowship!

Great to have Justin B. Dimick giving the Clarke lecture at the Phil Acad of Surgery!

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A systematic review and meta-analysis by Noparatayaporn et al. found that bariatric surgery is cost-effective in high-income countries, with a pooled incremental net monetary benefit (INB) of $101,897.96 over a lifetime horizon for mixed obesity groups (with or without

Faria et al. used a Markov model to show that gastric bypass surgery is a dominant strategy, leading to significant cost savings and increased quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) compared to best medical management. The study reported that gastric bypass saves on average €13,244

Xia et al. conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis and systematic review, concluding that bariatric surgery is cost-saving over a lifetime, even without considering indirect costs The study highlighted that medication cost savings were significant post-surgery.[3] #obesity 4/

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Overall, the evidence consistently supports the cost-effectiveness of bariatric surgery over a lifetime, with significant economic and health benefits. Metabolic Bariatric Surgery lifetime cost-effectiveness 6/

I need people to understand how difficult it is to get an NIH grant. You spend months writing a proposal, following strict guidelines that include a detailed multiyear budget, bios of everyone on your team, plans for participant safety & ethical conduct. Then you send it off -1/n

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology. Lately, I’ve focused on

Absolutely shameful. Kevin is one of the most rigorous, forthcoming scientists in the field. Forcing out people like him is a devastating loss for science and public health. We will all be worse off for it. This is what happens when politics trumps evidence.

In the new era of ‘radical transparency,’ scientists being forced out for conducting rigorous research. When evidence becomes inconvenient, censorship follows. We’re witnessing the dismantling of scientific integrity. nytimes.com/2025/04/16/wel…

Every woman, I repeat, every woman of every age, every color, every political affiliation should condemn this, should raise their voice about this, should be terrified about this. Just a few short months ago women’s health advocates were optimistic for the first time in