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Member Log In - National Speakers Association - Utah Chapter
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Tammy Bartz, CPT |
| Tammy is a successful weight-loss surgery patient from 2000 who has replaced her love for food with a passion for exercise. Tammy is a Certified Personal Fitness Trainer, and uses her professional and personal experience to help other weight-loss surgery patients get fit with customized exercise programs.
Tammy is the author of the Strength-n-Sculpt book, which is part of BSCI’s Back On Track Program series. Committed to helping WLS patients create “Fitness That Fits” Tammy provides encouragement, support and personal coaching for WLS patients. |
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Colleen M Cook |
| Colleen is a successful weight loss surgery patient from 1995. She is the Founder & President of Bariatric Support Centers International. She is a sought after speaker & former host of the radio show, “Obesity’s Surgical Solution”. She is the author of the internationally acclaimed Success Habits of Weight Loss Surgery Patients.
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Rob Ferguson |
| A 30+ year career in sales and organizational change prepared Rob for his own life-changing experience using the tool of Gastric Bypass. His experiences uniquely prepared him to create a program that helps you prepare for a change to a healthy lifestyle. |
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David Fouts Chef |
| This successful weight loss surgery patient and professional chef, is one of the most sought after speakers in the bariatric community. His cooking demonstrations are educational, entertaining, and for a select few audience members, delicious!
Chef David Fouts is the author of two well-known cookbooks, Culinary Classics and Cookwise. |
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Monica Ganz PhD, CWLC |
| Monica Ganz is the founder and President of MG Consulting. She is a behavioralist with tremendous motivational skills. She has walked the walk as a previously super morbidly obese adult and now talks the talk for the benefit of all. Obese people have choices; they do not have to suffer in silence any more. It is a lifestyle that saves, not a diet. |
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Janean G. Hall |
| Janean Hall is an admired WLS patient and respected Bariatric professional, known for her heartfelt dedication & commitment to weight loss surgery patients throughout the world. A weight loss surgery patient from 1997, Janean has been an exemplary patient maintaining a loss of over 135 pounds. She credits much of her success to her commitment to a lifetime of living the Success Habits Principles.
Janean’s personal experience, coupled with the insight she has gained through the years working with literally thousands of weight-loss surgery patients, makes her a rare asset to the Bariatric community.
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Jacqueline ND Jacques |
| Dr. Jacqueline Jacques is a Naturopathic Doctor with more than a decade of expertise in medical nutrition. Dr. Jacques has spent much of her career in the dietary supplement industry as a formulator, speaker, writer and educator. She is the Chief Science Officer for Catalina Lifesciences LLC, a company dedicated to providing the best of nutritional care to weight-loss surgery patients. |
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Katie Jay, |
Katie Jay, MSW, is director of the National Association for Weight Loss Surgery, is a certified WLS life coach, and is author of Dying to Change: My Really Heavy Life Story, How Weight Loss Surgery Gave Me Hope for Living.
Katie had weight loss surgery (WLS) in 2004 and maintains a 200-pound weight loss.
Recognized as a leading spokesperson for WLS, Katie has appeared on CNN Radio, and was featured in Women's World and The National Enquirer. With her deeply personal, insightful, and entertaining message, Katie is a favorite speaker at WLS support groups and conferences. |
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J. Timothy Katzen, MD, FACS |
| Dr Timothy Katzen is one of the most sought after plastic surgeons in the bariatric community. Specializing in reconstructive surgery for weight-loss surgery patients, Dr Katzen had made post bariatric plastic surgery an integral part of his practice. Equally important, he has the education and advanced training you want in a plastic surgeon.
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Sue Lassetter M.A., CHT, Life Coach |
| Sue is the Co-Founder of BariatriU Discovery Institute has a long history in education, as a teacher, counselor and administrator in public schools. She trained and worked as a therapist, and most recently maintains a practice as a Life Coach which involves speaking, advocacy and facilitation. |
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Dana Schroeder RN, BSN, PHN, Life Coach |
| Dana is an RN BSN PHN with 25 years in the Health Care/Management. As a Weight Loss Surgery (WLS) patient of five years she has become involved with development of aftercare programs as an independent contractor. Contracting with several local hospitals to provide services in the area of Bariatrics. |
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Jackie Smiertka R.N. |
| Jacquelyn Smiertka, R.N., has dedicated the past 25 years to the field of obesity surgery. She has worked with Vertical Banded Gastroplasty, Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Duodenal Switch patients. She has given presentations regarding the necessity of education for weight loss surgery patients nationally and internationally in Austria, Greece, Italy, and Spain. |
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Barbara Thompson |
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Barbara Thompson known as the "Voice of Obesity" has been speaking nationally since 2001 to groups as small as 20 and as large as 19,000. Her presentations on weight loss surgery, patient satisfaction and positive patient outcomes as well as obesity sensitivity have drawn rave reviews. |
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