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Newark, NJ – The
most up-to-date information on breakthrough weight-loss surgery
will be the focus of a Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Community
Forum on Tuesday, September 8, 2009 entitled, Weight No More:
Achieving Weight Loss for Life – Options in Bariatric/Weight-loss
Surgery.
The program, presented by Leonard D. Benitez, MD, CWS, FACS, DMP,
a surgeon at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, along with Adam
Kopelan, MD, Vice Chairman of Surgery and Chief of Minimally Invasive
Surgery at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, will be held at 6:30
p.m. at the Hyatt Regency Jersey City on the Hudson, 2 Exchange
Place, Jersey City, NJ. The program is free but pre-registration
is required.
Dr. Benitez, fellowship-trained in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery,
along with Dr. Kopelan, board-certified in General Surgery with
a special interest in Robotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery,
head up the Center for Advanced Bariatric and Minimally Invasive
Surgery at Newark Beth Israel. Their presentation will address
how weight-loss surgery is giving an increasing number of persons
with severe obesity a new start in life.
Newark
Beth Israel Medical Center performs the full range of bariatric
surgical procedures including roux-en-y gastric bypass, sleeve
gastrectomy, laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (lap banding).
Psychological aspects of the procedures as well as their impact
on diet and nutrition, are also addressed.
For
more information or to register for Weight No More, please
call Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, an affiliate of the Saint
Barnabas Health Care System, 1-888-724-7123, or go to www.barnabashealth.org/newarkbethbariatric to
register online.
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, a 673-bed regional care teaching
hospital, provides comprehensive health care to its local communities
and is a major referral and treatment center for the northern New
Jersey metropolitan area. With more than 800 physicians, 3,200
employees and 150 volunteers, the Medical Center has over 300,000
outpatient visits and 25,000 admissions annually. The main
phone number for Newark Beth Israel Medical Center,
located at 201 Lyons Avenue at Osborne Terrace in Newark, is (973)
926-7000, or visit www.barnabashealth.org. For physician referral
information, please call 1-888-724-7123.
Date: August 13, 2009
Contact: Lisa Blumert
Public Relations,
(973) 322-4921
lblumert@barnabashealth.org
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