Orange Regional Medical Center offers free Seminar offered on weight-loss surgery

MIDDLETOWN — Orange Regional Medical Center will host a free educational seminar on bariatric weight loss surgery at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 7, at the hospital’s Multipurpose Conference Room, located at 707 East Main St. in Middletown. Janet Kovler, the hospital's bariatric surgical services coordinator, will lead the semionar. One of Orange Regional’s board-certified, fellowship-trained bariatric surgeons will talk about obesity treatment options, including non-surgical approaches and gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy and gastric banding surgery. The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery has designated Orange Regional a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence. For more information or to register for both the seminar and the support group, call 1-888-321-6762 or visit www.ormc.org/bariatrics.