 My name is Dr. Alexander Apkin. I'm a medical director of a bariatric surgical weight loss program at JFK Medical Center. My job is to make sure that the program is well run, that the results are on par with other programs nationwide and in the world, and that the program meets all the criteria to be approved as what we call a center of excellence in bariatric surgery. Based on my average annual surgical experience, I would say I'm close to 10,000 procedures over the lifetime of bariatric surgeries. We offer patients at JFK Medical Center laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, laparoscopic ruin-wide gastric bypass, laparoscopic gastric banding surgery. We offer a full gamut of procedures which are approved by American Society for metabolic and bariatric surgery, which I'm a member of. We have a very comprehensive program including pre-surgical intake, whether it's seminars, virtual seminars, we have a comprehensive dietary and behavioral program, we have a fitness program if patients are interested, then we have an excellent surgical team, and then we have an excellent aftercare program which is mandatory, and we do offer all that together and put together that becomes a center of excellence program 10 years in a row. From the very beginning of my tenure here as a medical director, we set on a path to become a center of excellence not just as a bariatric program, but center of excellence for each of the individual insurance companies. Our program is a center of excellence for Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna for United Oxford program, CIGNA, which basically means that we're all in network and we meet all the highest standards for each individual insurance companies to take care of the bariatric patient. Hopefully it's making it very comforting for the patients to come here knowing that it will be taking care on in-network basis and it's a center of excellence approved by their respective insurance companies. JFK Medical Center has been designated as a five-star bariatric health-grade center of excellence. It's another testament to their commitment of the facility and institution to be the best in the field.