This month’s On the Spot is an exit interview with outgoing American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery President Eric J. DeMaria, MD. Dr. DeMaria is a professor and the chief of general and bariatric surgery at Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, in Greenville, N.C.
In this column, we cover various aspects of the obesity epidemic, the doctors who are a part of its treatment, the association that supports surgical treatment, and the partners working with the