Our practice offers a program designed to help you meet your weight loss goals.
We pride ourselves on a team approach focusing upon women with fertility issues, PCOS or related health concerns.
The program covers the preoperative to postoperative needs of patients incorporating ongoing support along with a range of tools and resources.
Our Weight Loss Team
A dedicated team of individuals will make sure that you have the support and assistance you need, both before surgery, plus while you recover and work towards your health goals.
The qualified and friendly professionals who can help you include:
- Your surgeon (Dr Ruth Blackham)
- You'll meet your surgeon first and you will both decide on the best treatment method for you
- Bariatric physician:
- A Specialist Endocrinologist (Dr Imran Badshah) or
- Specialist GP (Dr Jaina Chauhan)
who will monitor your progress and guide you as you recover and lose weight - Accredited Practicing Dietitian
- Loren Muhlmann,
HealthMedLife or
- Ana Orozco/Louise Campbell,
Amity
Dietetics
Your Dietitian will assist you as you adjust to a new, healthy diet by offering advice and suggesting meal supplements for you, in addition to multivitamins - Respiratory Physiotherapist
- Meher Kaur - for patients at the Mount Hospital, Meher will see you at day 1 postoperatively to ensure you are optimised in your postop recovery.
- Clinical Psychologist:
- Katie-Lee Elliott
When required, Katie will oversee your psychological preparedness before surgery. She can also review patients postoperatively to ensure smooth adjustment to having had weight loss surgery.
Enjoy the Life You Always Wanted
Following bariatric surgery, your eating habits, lifestyle, and energy levels may have changed.
To ensure the upkeep of your new health, it is important for a strict lifelong aftercare plan to be implemented and followed.
Your Treatment Program
We will tailor a program to your specific needs before and after surgery.
All of our practitioners are well trained and highly experienced in weight loss surgery, and know how to help you get the most out of your bypass or sleeve.
Ongoing Care Before, During and After Surgery
Patients are provided with:
- Preoperative patient screening,
- Information about how to achieve their weight loss goals,
- Details about the procedure
- What to expect after the surgery
- Open communication between the patient, surgeon and the bariatric support team
- A follow-up schedule to help monitor postoperative progress
- Dietary advice before and after surgery
- A recommended program for exercise
- Psychological counselling, if needed
After-care Program
After your surgery, your doctor will guide you towards a personalised Aftercare Plan.
- For weight loss surgery, the aftercare program will usually cost ~$700 prior to private health/Medicare rebate and will include:
- Dietetic review x 5 appointments (2 weeks, 6 weeks, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months)
- Surgeon review x 2 appointments at 3 weeks and 3 months
- Physician review x appointments at 6 months and 12 months
