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Your generous contributions will support the ASMBS Foundation’s public and professional education initiatives - to raise awareness of obesity as a critical public health problem, reduce discrimination and to promote effective treatments of obesity.
Educational projects funded by the ASMBS Foundation:
- Co-Sponsor of the 2004 ASBS Consensus Conference on Bariatric Surgery – Washington, D.C.
- Partially funded the development and implementation of the Bariatric Nurse Credentialing Program
- Supported the educational and advocacy initiatives of the OAC
- Partially underwritten a professorship honoring Edward Mason, MD
- Begun developing a “Hot Topics” educational program updating ASBS Members on obesity-related research and news
- Support the Florida Obesity Summit
- Supported the ASMBS CME Compendium Project
- Funded two community grants (through the Bryan Woodward Grant Program) supporting childhood obesity initiatives
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