PLENARY SESSION #7: Rapid Fire Abstracts

Who benefits from bariatric surgery from a quality-of-life perspective: one-year findings from the REBORN study

Ms. Reyhaneh Yousefi, M.Sc (She/Her/Elle)
PhD Candidate
Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre (MBMC), Centre intégré universitaire de santé et de services sociaux du Nord-de-l’Île-de-Montréal (CIUSSS-NIM), Québec, Canada
Concordia University, Department of Health, Kinesiology, and Applied Physiology, Montreal, Québec, Canada

 

Reyhaneh Yousefi has completed her undergrad and Master’s degree in Clinical Nutrition, in Tehran, Iran, and moved to Canada in 2019 to complete her PhD in Health Science at Concordia University under the supervision of Dr. Simon Bacon. She is also a research assistant at the Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre, where she is conducting a living systematic review on behavioural weight management interventions adjunct to bariatric surgery. Her main research interest is in exploring the underlying behavioural, specifically nutritional, determinants leading to certain outcomes of bariatric surgery and the design and implementation of behavioural interventions for patients undergoing bariatric surgery. 

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