What the Experts Say
A Medical Weight Loss Specialist's Perspective
Caroline Apovian, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine;
Director, Center for Nutrition and Weight Management;
Co-director, Nutrition Support Service at Boston Medical Center
"The EndoBarrier System intrigues me because it can simulate what we do with gastric bypass for patients in a noninvasive procedure."
A Bariatric Surgeon's Perspective
Keith S. Gersin, MD, FACS
Director of Bariatric Surgery
at Carolinas Medical Center
"The EndoBarrier System is exciting because it can offer patients the treatment of surgery in a non-surgery manner."
A Bariatric Surgeon's Perspective
Jan Willem Greve, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Center, Netherlands
"At the end of a trial, patients say ‘please leave it in because it is working so well for me'. "
A Gastroenterologist's Medical Weight Loss Specialist's Perspective
Lee Kaplan, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine;
Associate Chief of Research, Gastroenterology;
Co-Director, Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease;
Director, Weight Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
" The EndoBarrier System is a new approach -- and any time you have a new approach, there are opportunities for new models of care. "
An Endocrinologist's Perspective
Christopher H. Sorli, M.D., F.A.C.E
Department of Endocrinology, Billings Clinic, Billings, Montana
"With the EndoBarrier System, a paradigm shift is taking place in how we approach diabetes."