Dr. Mona Misra on Discovery

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Dr. Misra is a surgeon at the Weight Loss Center at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and has performed more than 5,000 bariatric, advanced laparoscopic and endoscopic surgical procedures. She has presented her research findings at numerous national and international meetings on advanced laparoscopic techniques and metabolic surgery. Prior to joining Cedars-Sinai, Dr. Misra was a surgeon and an assistant professor at Canada’s McMaster University. She talks about how there are good candidates and great candidates for surgery and then there are patients that are not prepared for surgery at that moment in time. She discusses the pros and cons of all three bariatric surgical procedures and takes the viewer through the post-surgical side effects associated with each.

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ContributorDr. Mona MisraRead Full Bio

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Dr. Misra is a surgeon at the Weight Loss Center at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and has performed more than 5,000 bariatric, advanced laparoscopic and endoscopic surgical procedures. She has presented her research findings at numerous national and international meetings on advanced laparoscopic techniques and metabolic surgery. Prior to joining Cedars-Sinai, Dr. Misra was a surgeon and an assistant professor at Canada’s McMaster University. She talks about how there are good candidates and great candidates for surgery and then there are patients that are not prepared for surgery at that moment in time. She discusses the pros and cons of all three bariatric surgical procedures and takes the viewer through the post-surgical side effects associated with each.

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Dr. Mona Misra discusses how she is seeing “more and more patients that are overweight or obese but probably 65 percent of the population is obese or overweight but this is not a problem that's going away.” And this problem is reaching epidemic levels in teenagers and children. She offers her point of view as to whether or not obesity is a disease and eating is an addiction. She sees obesity as a multifactorial problem that covers psychological reasons and socio-economic reasons. People are eating more of the wrong foods and exercising less. She talks about how there are good candidates and great candidates for bariatric surgery and then there are patients that are not prepared for surgery at that moment in time.

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