Schumacher awarded scholarship to share bariatric expertise at global conference
Leah Schumacher, assistant professor of social and behavioral sciences, took her expertise to Naples, Italy, in August. She was awarded a scholarship to attend and present at the annual World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO), where top researchers and clinicians in bariatric medicine convene to share the latest research in their field.
“It’s important to see the research being done in different countries,” she says. “Healthcare systems are different, populations are different, and to some degree the...