Society For Metabolic And Bariatric Endoscopy Inc

TO BE AN INFORMATIONAL RESOURCE FOR PATIENTS SEEKING ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY FOR WEIGHT-RELATED AND METABOLIC DISEASE. TO ENCOURAGE THE ADVANCEMENT AND DISSEMINATION OF MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE. TO STRIVE FOR PREVENTION AND CURE OF DISEASE AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH. TO PROVIDE EFFECTIVE REPRESENTATION FOR THE MEMBERS. TO PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR COLLEGIAL ASSOCIATION OF ITS MEMBERS. TO RECEIVE GIFTS AND PROPERTY TO BE USED FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF AND THE PROMOTION OF ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY OF WEIGHT-RELATED AND METABOLIC DISEASE.

IN APRIL 2023, THE ORGANIZATION HELD ITS FLEXIBLE ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY (FES) MEDICAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE.IN MIAMI FLORIDA. THIS UNIQUE ENDOSCOPY COURSE FOCUSED ON AN INTENSIVE HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE, DESIGNED FOR GASTROENTEROLOGISTS, SURGICAL ENDOSCOPISTS, GASTROENTEROLOGY FELLOWS, AND GI NURSES. STATE-OF-THE-ART LECTURES BY LEADERS IN THE FIELD, COVERED TECHNIQUES AND CUTTING-EDGE ADVANCES IN GI ENDOSCOPY IN BOTH FLEXIBLE ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY AND BARIATRIC ENDOSCOPY. TOPICS INCLUDED PRIMARY OBESITY DEVICES (BALLOONS, SLEEVES, ENDOSCOPIC PLICATING, ENDOSCOPIC SUTURING), POST-BARIATRIC COMPLICATIONS, ENDOSCOPIC SUTURING, TRANSORAL INCISIONLESS FUNDOPLICATION (TIF), POEM, ENDOSCOPIC SUBMUCOSAL DISSECTION (ESD), FULL-THICKNESS RESECTION (FTR), GI BLEEDING, ERCP IN THE BARIATRIC PATIENT, THERAPEUTIC EUS, ENDOHEPATOLOGY, AND MORE. THIS 3-DAY EVENT STARTED OFF WITH STATE-OF-THE-ART LECTURES AND HANDS-ON DEMONSTRATIONS OF NEW TECHNIQUES AND DEVICES FOR BARIATRIC ENDOSCOPY, FOLLOWED BY STATE-OF-THE-ART LECTURES AND HANDS-ON DEMONSTRATIONS FLEXIBLE ENDOSCOPIC SURGICAL TECHNIQUES AND DEVICES, FOCUSING HEAVILY ON THIRD SPACE PROCEDURES. THROUGHOUT EACH DAY WE HAD SPECIAL SIMULTANEOUS SESSIONS HIGHLIGHTING THERAPEUTIC EUS (FRI) AND ENDOHEPATOLOGY (SAT). ADDITIONALLY, WE HELD EXCITING LIVE BROADCASTED CASES FROM THE HOSPITAL DAS CLNICAS DA FACULDADE DE MEDICINA DA UNIVERSIDADE DE SAO PAULO, BRAZIL. OUR LAST IN PERSON COURSE WAS HELD IN MARCH 2019 AND WAS A HUGE SUCCESS! WE WERE OVERSUBSCRIBED FOR THE DIDACTIC AND HANDS-ON STATIONS, AND HAD A GOOD MIX OF GASTROENTEROLOGISTS (75%) AND SURGEONS (25%). COURSE FEEDBACK WAS EXCELLENT AND MANY PARTICIPANTS RETURNED TO THEIR HOME INSTITUTIONS AND INCORPORATED TECHNIQUES HIGHLIGHTED AT THIS EVENT SUCCESSFULLY IN THEIR CLINICAL PRACTICES! SINCE COVID, OUR PLATFORM HAS BEEN VIRTUAL SO WE WERE EXCITED TO BE BACK IN PERSON! WE HAD ABOUT 250 ATTENDEES FOR THE 2 MAIN COURSE DAYS AND 50 FOR DAY 3.