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Exploring the Bariatric Surgery/Diabetes Link: An Interview With Francesco Rubino, MD

Article preview from Medtech Insight - March 2009

Researchers have recently discovered that Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery is a very effective tool for improving-and sometimes completely reversing-type 2 diabetes. Medtech interviews Francesco Rubino, MD, chief of gastrointestinal metabolic surgery at Cornell University's Weill Cornell Medical College, who is at the forefront of a new subspecialty in bariatric surgery called diabetes surgery. He and his group are studying exactly how bariatric surgery succeeds in reversing type 2 diabetes.

A Mechanistic Look at Diabetes Surgery

Article preview from IN VIVO - January 2009

The notion of how Roux-en-Y achieves weight loss and reverses diabetes is changing. Francesco Rubino, MD, chief of gastrointestinal metabolic surgery at Cornell University's Weill Cornell Medical College is at the forefront of diabetes surgery. Rubino's diabetes surgery program aims to tease out the mechanisms by which gastric bypass reverses diabetes. Here, an interview with Dr. Rubino.