Department of Surgery

Work by MIS Published in JAMA Network Open

The paper “Clinical Outcomes and Hospital Utilization Among Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery With Telemedicine Preoperative Care” by Callie Hlavin, MD, Phoebe Ingraham, and Tamara Byrd, MD was published in JAMA Network Open (journal impact factor: ~13). The authors stress the importance of telemedicine providing more accessibility and flexibility to patients receiving preoperative care for bariatric surgery.