Here are four observations:
1. The study will include 15 bariatric programs in the United States.
2. The study will examine patients with documented GERD a minimum of six months after a sleeve gastrectomy.
3. Erin Moran-Atkins, MD, an assistant professor of surgery at the Montefiore Medical center and Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York City, is the principal investigator.
4. Mederi Therapeutics developed Stretta therapy, a non-surgical procedure for GERD that uses radiofrequency energy.
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