Medical group practice St. Luke’s Weight Management Center in Allentown, PA, specializes in Bariatric Medicine and Geriatric Medicine and is open five days a week. Taking part in the St. Luke’s Weight Loss Challenge is a great way to get started on a healthier lifestyle. In 180 days, you can drop 2% of your whole-body weight. The $20,000 prize money will be distributed evenly among those who satisfy all of the conditions (weigh-ins and weight reduction)!
Medical (non-surgical) and surgical weight loss programs are available at St. Luke’s Weight Management Center to assist patients to achieve their weight loss and health goals. It is recognized by MBSAQIP (Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Quality Improvement Program) and provides our patients with the greatest degree of clinical quality and care.
Procedure at the St Luke’s Weight Loss
Gastric Sleeve Surgery
Later, the study indicated that the hunger-generating hormone ghrelin was dramatically suppressed in gastric sleeve patients. It’s thought that the portion of the stomach excised after gastric sleeve surgery generates much of the hormone ghrelin. While gastric bypass patients noticed decreased hunger, it seemed to be more prominent in gastric sleeve patients.
Surgeons want you to be successful. Most surgeons care about getting you well. But they also know that you’re a prospective referral source. You are a potential success story.
Lap Band Surgery
If you’re considering weight reduction surgery then you should consider Lap-Band surgery. There are three typical weight loss treatments; Lap Band surgery, gastric bypass and gastric sleeve surgery. The approach and method of weight reduction are different for every treatment. However, the aim remains the same, to lose weight, minimize comorbidities, and live a better life. The amount of weight you may anticipate losing should not be the only consideration considered while choosing your operation.
Team
Doctors at the St Luke’s Weight Loss
Elliot E. Abbey, M.D.
Doctor Elliot Abbey of Van Amburg & Busiek, MD’s is board-certified in cancer and hematology. For more than four decades, he has provided his patients and their loved ones with the highest degree of care possible. Dr. Abbey graduated from the New York University School of Medicine and the Washington University School of Medicine with a medical degree in oncology. He provides his services in both English and French.
Chesterfield-based medical practice Van Amburg and Busiek, LLC- Chesterfield is where he is presently practicing medicine. New York University and a fellowship from Barnes-Jewish Hospital are among the institutions that have awarded him his degree. Barnes-Jewish Hospital is where he is now being treated.
Vikram V. Agarwal, M.D.
Medical director of the cardiovascular imaging team Vikram Agarwal, MD, is a specialist in multimodality cardiovascular imaging; he will oversee and analyze cardiac MRIs, coronary CT angiography, and nuclear cardiology studies (including PET).
Besides clinical cardiology, Dr. Agarwal has an interest in preventive cardiology. Besides that, he is a well-known medical researcher who has published several publications in prestigious medical journals.
Dr. Agarwal acquired his medical degree from Rural Medical College of Pravara Medical Trust in Loni, India, and his master’s degree in public health from Harvard. While in New York, he completed his internal medicine residency at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital and his cardiology fellowship at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s and Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital, all under the guidance of Columbia University School of Medicine. He also completed an advanced clinical residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in non-invasive cardiovascular imaging.
Costs
St Luke’s Weight Loss offers price transparency to offer the price for the gastric sleeve at $2,456, and the gastric bypass at $3,229.20. If you want to learn more about their price click here. Upon reading further this look
Locations
Elliot E. Abbey, M.D.
232 S. Woods Mill Road
Suite 330 East
Chesterfield, MO 63017
Vikram V. Agarwal, M.D.
