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DR. STEGE, LOUISVILLE, EARNS DIPLOMATE STATUS IN BARIATRIC MEDICINEGeorge C. Stege, III, M.D., who practices at 1170 E. Broadway, Ste. 100, in Louisville, Kentucky, has successfully completed the requirements to earn the board certified status of Diplomate of the American Board of Bariatric Medicine (ABBM). Dr. Stege, who hasa special interest in bariatric medicine (medically supervised weight control and treatment of obesity), has passed both an extensive written and oral board examination, as well as an onsite, peer-reviewed Patient Care Review to become board certified in bariatric medicine. Dr. Stege graduated from Princeton University in 1975 with a BA in physics and received his medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1979. The American Board of Bariatric Medicine, founded in 1970 and located in Denver, Colorado, is an independent medical specialty board responsible for certifying physicians in the field of bariatric medicine. Bariatric medicine is the medically-supervised treatment of obesity and its associated conditions. Obesity, declared a specific disease entity by the National Institutes of Health, is believed to affect more than 58 million people across the nation and has been established as a major risk factor in a number of associated health conditions including hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus and some cancers in both men and women. Dr. Stege becomes the
274th physician to pass an ABBM onsite Patient Care Review and is
the 236th physician who has earned the unique honor and designation
of becoming board certified in bariatric medicine.
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What Our Patients are saying... "I thought losing weight had to be hard, boy was I wrong" "Thank you Dr. Stege, my daughter is a new person!" "Fear was keeping me from losing weight, don't let it keep you from being thinner." "They helped me realize being heavy was not my fault." "I did it for me, but the fact that everyone else noticed isn't bad either ." "I lost the weight but I didn't have to do it alone." |