Chicago Bandster Bash Details

Converge On Chicago A National Bandster Bash

April 8 – 10, 2005

Holiday Inn Rosemont

For more information go to http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/bandsterbash/

Converge on Chicago for a fun-filled, inspirational weekend. Meet your online friends, speak with surgeons and other band experts, share your stories and find support in others’ struggles and triumphs. Attend seminars and discussions, socialize, and Celebrate your own role in this wonderful bandster community.

I am excited and pleased to announce David Kiley will be our keynote

speaker at the Chicago Bandster Bash. David Kiley is Marketing Editor at Businessweek Magazine. Prior to joining Businessweek, Kiley was Detroit Bureau Chief for USA Today where he covered the auto industry, as well as wrote about his experience as a Bandster. Kiley has also worked for Adweek and Brandweek as an editor, as well as for two leading advertisingagencies. He has appeared many times on national TV and radio as an authority on the auto industry, advertising, as well as to talk about his Bandster experience.

DR Santiago Horgan, M.D.

Director, Minimally Invasive Bariatric Center

Dr. Horgan is a leading surgeon in the field of minimally invasive

surgery and was among the first surgeons to be trained in the use of

the LAP-BAND Adjustable Gastric Banding System. In fact, he was

instrumental in bringing the LAP-BAND surgery to the United States,

and is one of just 20 surgeons in the country who participated in the

FDA clinical trial leading the approval of the LAP-BAND Adjustable

Gastric Banding System for the treatment of morbidly obese patients.

As a result, he is one of the most experienced surgeons in the field,

having performed over 500 LAP-BAND surgeries to date. At the request

of the LAP-BAND manufacturer, he also instructs other surgeons

throughout the U.S. on the procedure.

DON MILLS from Inamed!!!

Yes folks, Don Mills from Inamed will be joining us for the Chicago

Bandster Bash weekend. He is coming and will stay for the entire

event so people have lots of opportunity to talk with him one on one.

He is bringing some give-aways, some real live bands for

demonstrations, some literature, etc.

I hope you all are as excited as we are in welcoming Don Mills to our

Bash.

Check out our website, grab a friend, and converge on Chicago!