Free bariatric surgery seminars scheduled

The public is invited to a free educational seminar hosted by Regional West Hospital’s bariatric surgeons to learn how weight loss surgery can help you gain control of your weight, your health and your life.

Regional West surgeons Jeffrey Holloway, M.D., FACS, and Jason LaTowsky, M.D., will be the presenters.

Holloway has been a surgeon at Regional West for more than 17 years and has performed more than 1,600 lap band surgeries and 400 gastric bypass surgeries in his career. He specializes in laparoscopic banding (LAP band) and gastric bypass. LaTowsky is a Nebraska Panhandle native and is fellowship-trained in bariatric surgery. He specializes in gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy.

Regional West Weight Loss Options will host several free bariatric surgery seminars in the coming months throughout the Panhandle of Nebraska and eastern Wyoming:

LaTowsky will be presenting Sept. 9 and Nov. 11 in Regional West Scotts Bluff Room I, and Holloway will be presenting Oct. 7 in Regional West Scotts Bluff Room I.

LaTowsky will present Sept. 2 in Box Butte General Hospital’s Sandhills Room, and Sept. 16 in the Chadron Community Hospital meeting room.

Holloway will present in the Dorwart Cancer Care Center’s conference room at 6 p.m. on Oct. 1. Dr. LaTowsky will present Oct. 7 in Torrington in the Platte Valley Bank Community Room.

All presentations begin at 6:30 p.m. unless otherwise stated. Seminar dates and times, as well as other Regional West events, can e found on the events calendar at http://www.rwhs.org/our-network/event-calendar.

The surgeons will present an overview of the three bariatric surgery options at each seminar and answer questions about gastric bypass, gastric sleeve, and laparoscopic (LAP band) surgery. All three procedures are available through Regional West’s Weight Loss Options program.

For more information or to reserve a seat (recommended but not required), call Mona Urwin, RN, certified bariatric nurse, at (308) 630-2249. For additional information about the programs available, please visit http://www.RWMCWeightLossOptions.com.