VITKIN

Member of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians and has been specializing in bariatric medicine for 25 years... The American Society of Bariatric Physicians defines Bariatric medicine as the medically-supervised treatment of obesity and its associated conditions. In 1985, the National Institutes of Health, at its Health Consensus Development Conference on the Health Implications of Obesity, stated that obesity is a specific disease entity that should be treated and monitored medically by a trained physician.