News and Events at Advanced Obesity Surgery

April, 2008: Dr. Smith is serving as faculty for a course on the Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy, at Ethicon Endosurgery in Cincinnati, OH.

April, 2008: Dr. Smith announced that the Stomaphyx™ procedure in now available at The Advanced Obesity Surgery Center. This exciting and revolutionary device allows revisions of certain problems with prior bariatric operations using the Stomaphyx™ device, which is passed down through the esophagus and therefore requires no incisions and leaves no scars on the skin. Dr. Smith is one of only a few surgeons who can offer this technique alone or in combination with laparoscopic revision techniques for the RNY Gastric Bypass and the Duodenal Switch.

November, 2007: Dr. Smith was selected from among all the doctors at Kennestone Hospital as the recipient of the inaugural Physician Partner In Excellence Award by the Nursing Staff of the Hospital.

October, 2007: Dr. Smith was selected to present one of his videos at the prestigious American College of Surgeons meeting in New Orleans, LA. Dr. Smith presented his technique and experience with a Laparoscopic Ileo-Jejunostomy for Reversal of Malabsorption Following the Laparoscopic Duodenal Switch Procedure at the conference.

May, 2007: Dr. Smith was invited to be a keynote speaker at the first International Workshop on the Duodenal Switch in Brazil, held in the city of Curitiba, Brazil. Dr. Smith presented his experience and technique with the Laparoscopic Duodenal Switch at the conference.

April, 2007: Dr. Smith was again Course Director and Faculty for a comprehensive course on the "Laparoscopic BPD with Duodenal Switch" at Ethicon Endosurgery in Cincinnati, OH, along with Dr. Gary Anthone.

November, 2006: Sue Wood, RN has rejoined the WellStar team as our Bariatric Nurse Manager! We are thrilled to have her back, and she is hard at work making the WellStar Bariatric Surgery Program as good as it can be!

August, 2006: Dr. Smith was Course Director and Faculty for a comprehensive course on the "Laparoscopic BPD with Duodenal Switch with Hand-Sewn Duodeno-Ileostomy" at the headquarters of Ethicon Endosurgery in Cincinnati, OH. The course was for experienced laparoscopic bariatric surgeons who are interested in adding the Duodenal Switch to their armamentarium of bariatric operations. Dr. Gary Anthone was Co-Faculty for the Course. Bariatric surgeons from across the United States attended.

June, 2006: Dr. Smith presented the "Totally Laparoscopic Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch with Conventional Ports" as part of the faculty for the second Symposium on the Duodenal Switch Procedure, organized by the Duodenal Switch Institute, held in San Francisco coinciding with the meeting of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, June 27, 2006.

March, 2006: Dr. Smith was Course Director and Faculty for a comprehensive two-day course in the "Laparoscopic BPD with Duodenal Switch with Hand-Sewn Duodeno-Ileostomy" at the headquarters of Ethicon Endosurgery in Cincinnati, OH. The course was designed for experienced laparoscopic bariatric surgeons who are interested in adding the Duodenal Switch to their armamentarium of bariatric operations. The course also included a course in advanced laparoscopic suturing. Bariatric surgeons from across the United States attended.

December, 2005: We are very proud to announce that our program has been designated as a Center of Excellence in Bariatric Surgery by the Surgical Review Corporation and the American Society for Bariatric Surgery! We feel this reflects our commitment to excellence in all areas of bariatric surgery. The criteria for this designation are very strict,, and its standards are high. The designation includes Dr. Smith, Advanced Obesity Surgery and WellStar Kennestone Hospital.

October, 2005: Dr. Smith presented the "Totally Laparoscopic Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch with Conventional Ports" as part of the faculty for the first Symposium on the Duodenal Switch Procedure, organized by the Duodenal Switch Institute, held in San Francisco coinciding with the meeting of the American College of Surgeons, October 15, 2005.

May, 2005: Dr. Smith served as the faculty expert for a series of information presentations on bariatric surgery prepared by a national multimedia company that specializes in audiovisual educational materials. The materials included all three of the major bariatric operations, the Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, the Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch, and the Lap-Band. These were aimed both at patient and public education on bariatric surgery and at education of primary care physicians on bariatric surgery, and have now been produced and are in use in doctors' offices.

June, 2005: Dr. Smith and his team presented a poster at the meeting of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery (ASBS) in Orlando, in June, 2005, on the topic of “Laparoscopic Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch in Patients with BMI > 60”. This poster detailed Dr. Smith’s outcomes with Laparoscopic Duodenal Switch patients in this category, which is perceived to be a more difficult category of patients for doing the Laparoscoic Duodenal Switch (because of the difficulty of the procedure in patients with high BMI’s). Dr. Smith aimed to help show that the completely Laparoscopic Biliopnacreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch is a safe and very feasible operation in these higher BMI ranges.

December, 2004: The Audio-Digest® Foundation recently released a Continuing Medical Education Program on Bariatric Surgery featuring Dr. Dennis Smith as one of the invited faculty members. The American Society for Bariatric Surgery (ASBS) asked Dr. Smith to present on the topic of “Bariatric Procedures and Patient-Selection Criteria”, which touched on the three major bariatric operations that Dr. Smith does, the Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, the Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch, and the Lap-Band, and his experience in patient selection for each operation. The Audio-Digest tapes are one of the premier forms of Continuing Medical Education used by a great number of physicians the world over. This Program was released in December of 2004.

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