I just started looking around for more information about this meeting - NONE of the ASMBS site notices includes a link, and I finally stumbled upon the link to the conference - which is so "understated" as to be useless. Not even an agenda posted:
http://www.dsconsensus.com/. I'm wondering if he has enough interest to actually pull it off. I
Back in January, I got involved in a discussion on LinkedIn of all places, in a thread for the ASMBS as a group. After some of my posts about nutritional issues being the surgeon's failure more than the patients', for lack of proper guidance, he said:
Diana, good suggestions. As a matter of fact, we will have the First International Consensus Conference on Duodenal Switch in Montreal, June 22-23, 2015 (Omni Hotel). If interested to participate or present, please email me:
[email protected]
I sent him several emails to discuss this, but I can't afford to go - and I think Larra should go too. I sent this to him last month:
Anything new on this subject? I still cannot afford to come at my own expense, but I certainly would like to do anything possible to support the need for proper studies on nutritional requirements for DSers.
And, by the way, support a resolution about people getting PROPER information about the SADI, not calling any name that includes duodenal switch, and promulgating proper information that nutritional requirements for the SADI are very different from DS - we vets are seeing some TERRIBLE stories on the message boards.
His response: "The first conference (2015) will be an expert opinion, with invitations, as we have a limited budget. Subsequent ones will have an open submission of abstracts, videos and presentations, in 2016."
So, maybe next year - if there is a Second International Consensus (assuming the first one happens).
OTOH, a couple of days later, there is this, in Las Vegas:
http://owe.asmbs.org/schedule/
This would be fun to attend:
http://owe.asmbs.org/courses/bariatric-surgical-debates/