Choosing bariatric surgery as part of a healthy weight loss plan
Mission of the Emory Bariatric Center
To improve the health of overweight and obese patients with a collaborative and compassionate approach to excellence in treatment, research and education, from developing a healthy weight loss plan to performing bariatric surgeries like gastric bypass surgery.
Losing weight doesn't have to be a losing proposition
As a health problem with far-reaching implications, obesity can contribute to diabetes, heart disease, cancer and musculoskeletal disorders. While diet and exercise are essential to healthy weight loss, morbid obesity often requires supplementary treatment such as bariatric surgery.
Providing the best medical options currently available as well as the safest and most effective bariatric surgery techniques to treat obesity, the Emory Bariatric Center in Atlanta, Georgia, partners with the patient to develop a healthy weight loss plan that addresses his or her needs, condition and other particulars. In addition, the center's status as an academic research program allows it to offer levels of expertise, treatment, medication and technology that community health programs often can't reach. While weight loss is its primary focus, the center also incorporates the skills of numerous experts to treat the various medical problems that can accompany obesity.
Multi-Disciplinary Treatment
Established as a multi-disciplinary weight-management program in 2000, the Emory Bariatric Center tailors each patient's treatment using a continuum of methods that respond to the rising risks that accompany increasing levels of obesity. These methods include nutrition and exercise therapy, lifestyle education, pharmacotherapy, liquid meal replacement and bariatric surgeries like gastric bypass and the lap band system. The center's multi-specialty team includes a bariatrician, a psychologist, dietitians, surgeons, physician assistants, exercise specialists and a dedicated team of administrative and managerial personnel.
As part of the Emory community, center physicians are actively engaged in the education of future healthcare providers and the continuing education of professional healthcare providers by teaching surgical fellows, medical residents and students; physician assistant students; dietetic and exercise physiologist interns; graduate level nursing students; and practicing national and international physicians about healthy weight loss and when bariatric surgery is the right choice. Center team members are also engaged in ongoing research both within the program as well as collaboratively across Emory departments and with such organizations as the Centers for Disease Control and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
For more details about the service, please explore the side menu to the left of this page. We also offer adolescent bariatric surgery options.
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