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Symposium On Bariatric Patient Care

DANBURY — The Weight Loss Center at Danbury Hospital invites area physicians and other caregivers who treat patients undergoing surgical or nonsurgical weight loss therapies to the symposium, “Pre- and Post-Operative Management of Bariatric Patients for the Primary Care Physician” on Thursday, May 5, from 8 am to 2 pm, in the hospital’s John C. Creasy Auditorium.

George L. Blackburn, MD, PhD, will lead the program, which discusses nutrition, asthma, diabetes, GERD, hypertension, metabolic changes, psychiatric disorders, sleep disorders, and their affect on weight loss patients.

Dr Blackburn is an internationally renowned expert in the fields of obesity and clinical nutrition. He earned his medical degree from Kansas Medical School and his doctorate in nutritional biochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Currently Dr Blackburn holds appointments and positions at Harvard Medical School, including S. Daniel Abraham Chair of Nutrition Medicine, associate professor of surgery, and associate director of nutrition, division of nutrition. He also serves as director of nutrition support services, chief of the nutritional/metabolism laboratory, and director of the Center for the Study of Nutrition and Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Dr Blackburn is president of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity, and immediate past president of the American Society for Clinical Nutrition. A fellow in the American College of Surgery, he chairs the Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Nutrition, and the Scientific Advisory Committee for Shape Up America! (Koop Foundation).

The event is approved for AMA PRA credit. Registration opens at 7:30. For more information, contact Kerry Cleary at 797-7142.