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2010 IFSO AT-A-GLANCE

POST-GRADUATE COURSES
Friday, September 3 – Saturday, September 4


Friday, September 3
Surgical Post-Graduate Courses
- Metabolic Surgery
- Sleeve Gastrectomy
- Single-Incision Laparoscopic Surgery, Flexible Endoscopy and Emerging Endoluminal Procedures

Saturday, September 4
ASMBS FOUNDATION WALK FROM OBESITY
Surgical Post-Graduate Courses
                - Innovations in Endoluminal Procedures
                - Latin-American Course
                - Improving Quality of Care
Allied Health Post-Graduate Course
                - Integrated Multidisciplinary Approach/Team In Bariatric Surgery:  “More Than The Sum Of Its Members”
OPENING CEREMONY & RECEPTION

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Sunday, September 5 – Tuesday, September 7

 

Sunday, September 5
Symposia

  • Ethics in Bariatrics
  • Gastric Banding And Gastroplasty
  • Gastric Bypass

Oral Session

  • Session One:  Metabolic Surgery I
  • Session Two: General Interest
  • Session Three: Sleeve Session I
  • Session Four: Malabsorption and General Interest
  • Session Five: Complications I
  • Session Six: Gastric Bypass

Allied Health Tract
        -       Professional Networking Session
        -       Research Fundamentals:  Reading, Doing and         
        Applying Research
        -       Symposium:  Bariatric Behavioral Health Essentials:
        Psychosocial Assessment And Interventions Before
        and After Weight Loss Surgery

  • Allied Health Papers (8)

Video Session
Poster Session

Monday, September 6
Symposia

  • Metabolic Surgery
  • BPD & BPD with Switch
  • Sleeve Gastrectomy

Oral Session

  • Session Seven: Complications II
  • Session Eight: General Interest/Complications or Revisions

Video Sessions
Allied Health Tract

  • Allied Health Papers (7)

Presidential Address
IFSO CLOSING GALA

Tuesday, September 7
Symposium:  Round-Up
Gastric Plication Pro-Con Session/ Invited Panel
Oral Session

  • Session Nine: Revisions
  • Session Ten: Gastric Banding
  • Session Eleven: Metabolic Surgery II
  • Session Twelve: Sleeve II

Video Session
Closing Lecture

*Faculty and talks are subject to change.
       
The ASMBS is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for educational activities and will be providing the credits for participation in 2010 IFSO XV World Congress activities.  In compliance with all ACCME and AMA policies, Financial Disclosure is mandatory for all authors in order to participate in 2010 IFSO XV World Congress activities to assure the integrity of the design and presentation of CME activities.  Those with no financial relationships are required to disclose “none” to ASMBS before the activity.  Failure to disclose will result in the inability to participate in the activity, and there are no exceptions to this rule.