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The ASMBS Foundation is Now
TREO Foundation

TREO is Treatment, Research, and Education to end Obesity. Our purpose is to combat obesity by increasing the scientific and public understanding of metabolic and bariatric surgery — one of the most underutilized treatments in medicine.

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Research

We have provided over $2.1 million in research funding.

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Impact

Obesity impacts the health of 42.4% of Americans.

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Eligibility

Only 1% take advantage of this potentially life-saving treatment.

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Improvement

Patients who have metabolic surgery experience improvement or remission of their type 2 diabetes.

Walk from Obesity

Raising Funds & Awareness for over 20 Years

Introducing TREO

Support Treatment, Research, and Education

Our Grants Support Healthy Outcomes

Funding research that matters

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Treatment

We help improve access to quality care and effective treatment of obesity by eliminating policy, societal, economic and medical barriers.

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Research

We help end the obesity epidemic by sponsoring scientific research grants regarding bariatric surgical procedures and improvement of post surgical outcomes.

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Education

We work to increase awareness and understanding of obesity by educating the public on the prevention and treatment options available.

Grantee Spotlight

Meet the people making the breakthroughs

 With support from the TREO Foundation, we are confident that our studies will reveal unappreciated gene expression patterns and molecular pathways that are changed after bariatric surgery within the breast tissue microenvironment.

Thomas Shin, MD, PHD,

Recipient of the 2023 Research Grant

Study Spatial Transcriptomics Reveals Oncoprotective Effect of Bariatric Surgery Against Breast Cancer.

Currently I am the current Minimally Invasive Surgery/Bariatric Surgery clinical fellow at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston, MA).

LEAD Awards Honorees 2023

Jaime Ponce

Jaime Ponce, MD FACS FASMBS

Anthony Petrick, MD FASMBS

Erik Wilson, MD

Eric DeMaria, MD FASMBS

Rana Pullatt, MD FASMBS

Lisa West-Smith, PhD.LISW-S

Casey Flowers, MS RD

Pearl Ma, MD FACS FASMBS ABOM

Ali Aminian, MD FACS FASMBS

Lilian Kow, OAM BMBS PhD FRACS

Frank Bisceglie,Medtronic

Joe Nadglowski, President/CEO OAC

Thank you to our LEAD Award sponsors

Platinum Sponsors

Sponsor of Excellence in Nutrition Award

Sponsor of Surgical Innovation Award

Sponsor of Master Educator Award

Sponsor of Dr. Ronald H. Clements Patient Safety & Quality Award

Sponsor of Circle of Excellence Award

Sponsor of Excellence in Clinical Care Award

Sponsor of Rising Star Award

Silver Sponsors

Olympus

Bronze Sponsors