Congratulations to Hayder Shabana (Surgical registrar), Bon Secours Hospital Cork and Aaron Ho (Final Year medical Student) who, between them, gave four oral presentations at the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic disorders (IFSO) Congress in Madrid in September. The meeting was attended by over 3000 delegates. All research was co-ordinated by Drs Doherty, O’Sullivan and Mr O’Boyle and executed by, in addition to the two presenters, Diarmuid Duggan (Senior Dietician), Emily O’Reilly (SHO), Inderjeet Panaasar (Intern), Kah Jin Lee (Final Year Medical student) and David Felske (Intern). Mr O’Boyle was on faculty for the meeting.
Abstracts:
HOW RELEVANT IS PRE-OPERATIVE OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA IN THE ASYMPTOMATIC BARIATRIC SURGICAL PATIENT? O'Reilly, E; Shabana, H; O'Boyle, C; Doherty, L; OBESITY SURGERY 29 881
(recently accepted for publication in “Obesity Surgery”)
IS IT NECESSARY TO SCREEN ALL BARIATRIC SURGICAL PATIENTS FOR OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNOEA? Panesar, I; Shabana, H; Doherty, L; O'Boyle, CJ; OBESITY SURGERY 29 801
THE EFFECT OF BARIATRIC SURGERY ON CARDIOVASCULAR RISK Ho, KHA; Lee, KJ; Shabana, H; Dollard, J; O'Boyle, C; OBESITY SURGERY 29 139
IMPACT OF A RIGOROUS PRE-OPERATIVE DIET AND SUBSEQUENT METABOLIC SURGERY ON INSULIN RESISTANCE IN NON-DIABETICS Felske, D; O'Sullivan, E; Shabana, H; Duggan, D; O'Boyle, C; OBESITY SURGERY 29 510
