You’ve tried to lose weight. You’ve struggled with one fad diet after another. You may have even taken pills to control your appetite or increase your metabolism. Despite everything you’ve tried, you still find excess weight draining you of energy, hurting your social life and negatively affecting your health and well-being.
It may be worse than you realize. If you are 50 to 100 pounds or more overweight, you are putting your life at risk. Studies show that extreme obesity can lead to hypertension, diabetes, degenerative arthritis, back pain, sleep apnea and heart failure. According to the American College of Surgeons, “Diseases associated with morbid obesity markedly reduce the odds of attaining an average life span and raise annual mortality tenfold or more.”
Northwest Health System is committed to its mission of “providing extraordinary healthcare service and enrich the lives in the communities we serve.” Our Weight Loss Surgery Program is an extension of that commitment.
The Weight Loss Surgery Program at Northwest Medical Center is committed to leading patients through a journey that can change lives. Our staff will help patients identify problem areas and then work with them on solving and changing them.
Josh Roller, MD, and Yong Kwon, MD, are fellowship trained minimally invasive bariatric and general surgeons who are independent members of the Northwest Health System Medical Staff.
Josh Roller has successfully completed over 1000 minimally invasive bariatric procedures. He and Dr. Kwon do all three types of bariatric/weight loss surgeries including lap band, gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy. Dr. Roller is a national teacher of other surgeons and for the sleeve gastrectomy procedure and the only Center of Excellence surgeon designee.
Drs. Roller and Kwon regularly share information about these life-changing procedures in a series of FREE educational seminars. For additional information, please call our bariatrics coordinator, Faith Hume, at 479-757-2065 and ask about Northwest Health System’s Bariatric Surgery program.