Leader: Dr. Philip Schauer, MD, Director of the Cleveland Clinic Bariatric and Metabolic Institute (BMI) Guest speaker, Dr. Ali Aminian, Associate Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, discusses key groundbreaking studies in bariatric surgery. There has been an upward trend over the past decade resulting in over 3,000 bariatric documents and Dr. Aminian chose the top 20 studies to present. The content of each study differs case-by-case.