Research & Publications

Presentations

SAGES Annual Meeting 2012

San Diego, CA, March 7-10 2012

Poster presentation: “Weight loss after major reoperations for adjustable gastric banding”

Royal Australasian College of Surgeons’ Annual Scientific Congress 2012

Bariatric Surgery Section

Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia, May 7-10

Verbal presentation: “Hiatal hernia repair after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding”

ANZGOSA AND OSSANZ MEETING 2015

Hamilton Island, QLD, Australia, October 7-9 2015

Verbal presentation: “Reducing complications with improving gastric band design”

American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 2017

San Diego, CA, October 22-26 2017

Video presentation: “Laparoscopic hepaticojejunostomy for recurrent pyogenic cholangitis”

ANZMOSS Annual Meeting 2018

Melbourne, VIC, Australia, September 6-7 2018

Poster presentation: “Safety and efficacy of revisional Roux-en-Y gastric bypass after sleeve gastrectomy – a single surgeon series”

Poster presentation: “Medium term outcomes of Converting Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band to Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in patients with Body Mass Index under 35kg/m²: An Uniquely Australian Perspective”

Poster presentation: “Short Term Weight Loss and Surgical Outcomes of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Patients with a Body Mass Index ≤ 35 kg/m²”

SAGES Annual Meeting 2019

Baltimore, MA, April 3-6 2019

Video presentation: “Conversion of endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass”

ANZMOSS Annual Meeting 2019

Brisbane, QLD, Australia, October 2-4 2019

Poster presentation: “Conversion of endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: a case series”

Scientific Sessions at the 36th Annual Meeting of the ASMBS at Obesity Week 2019

Las Vegas, NV, November 3-7 2019

Video presentation: “A case of food intolerance after sleeve gastrectomy”

ANZMOSS Annual Meeting 2020

Virtual Conference, October 15-16 2020

Poster presentation: “The prevalence and impact of H. pylori in sleeve gastrectomy patients”

Accepted:

IFSO 2021 25^th World Congress

Miami, FL, 23-27 August 2022

Verbal presentation: “Stage-dependent management of sleeve gastrectomy leaks – a systematic review with proposed CT-based classification and management algorithm”

Verbal presentation: “Outcomes of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy with concurrent hiatal hernia repair: A

single surgeon series”

Invited faculty:

American College of Surgeons Annual Clinical Congress 2022

San Diego, CA, 16-20 October 2022

International Bariatric Club Oxford University World Congress 2023

Oxford, UK, 18-20 September 2023

American College of Surgeons Annual Clinical Congress 2023

Boston, MA, 22-26 October 2023

Selected Publications

Neurosurgical considerations in von Hippel-Lindau disease

Beitner, M.M., Drummond, K.J., Winship, I.

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 2011, 18(2) pp.171-180.

Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding

Beitner, M.M., Kurian, M.

Abdominal Imaging: Special Issue on Obesity, August 2011

Penetrating liver injury managed with a combination of balloon tamponade and venous stenting. A case report and literature review.

Beitner, M.M., Suh, N., Dowling, R., Miller, J.A.

Injury, 2012 January, 43(1) pp.119-22.

Endoscopic management of persistent leak after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy

Beitner, M.M., Cohen, J., Kurian, M.

Bariatric Times, 2012 February, Issue 1 pp.1

Sustained weight loss after gastric banding revision for pouch-related problems

Beitner MM, Ren-Fielding CJ, Kurian MS, Schwack BF, Skandarajah AR, Thomson BN, Baxter AR, Pachter HL, Fielding GA.

Annals of Surgery, 2014 July;260(1):81-6.

Procedural changes to decrease complications in laparoscopic gastric bypass

Beitner, Melissa; Luo, Yuying; Kurian, Marina

Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons. 2015:19(1).

Reducing complications with improving gastric band design

Beitner MM, Ren-Fielding CJ, Fielding GA.

Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2016 Jan;12(1):150-6.

Previous weight loss as a predictor of weight loss outcomes after laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding

Sethi, M; Beitner, M; Magrath, M; Schwack, B F; Kurian, M S; Fielding, G A; Ren-Fielding, C J

Surg Endosc. 2016 May;30(5):1771-7.

Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band Removal and Conversion to Sleeve Gastrectomy

Beitner M, Creange, C, Ren-Fielding, C.

www.csurgeries.com Published April 7 2016

Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgical (SILS) Placement of an Adjustable Gastric Band

Beitner M, Creange C, Fielding, G.

csurgeries.com Published May 16 2016

Laparoscopic Loop Duodenal Switch

Beitner M, Slawin J, Fielding, G.

www.csurgeries.com Published February 13 2017

Laparoscopic Single Anastomosis Gastric Bypass

Beitner, M, Lin, J, Hopkins, G.

www.csurgeries.com Published May 18, 2018

Medium term outcomes of Converting Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band to Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in patients with Body Mass Index under 35kg/m²: An Uniquely Australian Perspective

Sulagna Gupta MBBS, BSc; Melissa Beitner MBBS; Christine Skinner GCertDiabEdM, BHSc (Nutr), BAppSci (HMS)/Bbus; George Hopkins MBBS

Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2020 April;16(4):485-491

Converting endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass

Melissa Beitner, MBBS and George Hopkins, MBBS FRACS

Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2020 April;16(4):590-591

Intrathoracic sleeve migrations after Sleeve Gastrectomy: an assessment of potential risk factors and etiologies

Aryan Meknat, MD; Melissa Beitner, MBBS; Gustavo Ranvier-Fernandez, MD FACS

J Laparoendosc Adv Surg Tech A. 2020 June. Online ahead of print.

Book chapters:

Postgastrectomy syndromes

Melissa Beitner, MBBS and Subhash Kini, MD FACS

Revisional Foregut Surgery, Published November 2019

Professional Society Memberships

American College of Surgeons (ACS)
Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES)
American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS)
Australian and New Zealand Metabolic and Obesity Surgery Society (ANZMOSS)
International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO)