Patient Support Groups

Weight Loss Surgery Support Groups

Support group meetings are offered once a month and designed to assist in the lifetime journey of post-surgery weight loss. Each meeting will offer an educational topic followed by an opportunity for patients to share their success and pitfalls with fellow attendees.

Those welcome to attend our bariatric support groups:

• Weight-loss surgery investigators seeking information and the “real-story”
• Pre-op patients waiting for weight loss surgery
• Early post-op patients or “newbies”
• Long-term veteran patients to support others and just checking in
• Back on trackers seeking to re-lose pounds
• Friends or family members
• Professionals-medical or other

Our support group meetings are intended for post-surgical weight loss patients of the UF Health Weight Loss Surgery Center; however, anyone new to the Gainesville area who is receiving or considering care with us is welcome to attend. There is no charge for attending the meeting and parking vouchers are available if needed. Reservations are not required.

Upcoming meeting dates and times

Time

6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m., every third Thursday of the month

Location

UF Health Shands Cancer Hospital
1515 SW Archer Road, Room 1204
Gainesville, FL  32608

2017 Schedule

*Not meeting in 1205 –alternate meeting location

NOTE FOR REPORTERS & JOURNALISM STUDENTS

Please contact Gwen Hasse, MSN, RN, UF Health bariatric coordinator, for further questions, concerns or topics of interest at hasseg@shands.ufl.edu or 352.265.0111 x29634.

If you are a member of the media or a journalism student who would like to report on this seminar, you must make prior arrangements with Katrina McAfee at 352.594.4135 or kciccarelli1@ufl.edu. UF Health policy states that all reporters must be escorted while on Shands-owned or UF-owned and -operated property.