Thomas H. Inge, MD, PhD, FACS, FAAP
Title
Surgical Director, Surgical Weight Loss Program for Teens
Director, Center for Bariatric Research and Innovation
Attending Surgeon, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Appointment
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Email
thomas.inge@cchmc.org
Phone
513-636-4371
Fax
513-636-7657
Bio
Thomas H. Inge, MD, PhD, is a Virginia native who grew up in a rural, farming community in Dinwiddie County. He received his BS in Biology at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA, in 1987. Dr. Inge entered the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond, VA, in the Medical Scientist Training Program, and pursued degrees in Microbiology / Immunology and Medicine. He graduated with MD and PhD degrees in 1993.
Dr. Inge received his surgical training at Stanford University Hospital in Palo Alto, CA, where he developed an interest in pediatric surgery. At the completion of his chief resident year in 1998, he moved to Birmingham, AL, for specialty training in pediatric surgery at the Children's Hospital of Alabama, with an emphasis on pediatric minimally invasive surgery. Dr. Inge became a full-time member of the surgical staff at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and faculty member of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Surgery, in July 2000.
In addition to general pediatric surgical practice, Dr. Inge's clinical research focus is related to bariatric surgery in adolescents. He is the surgical director of the Comprehensive Weight Management Center and the Surgical Weight Loss Program for Teens, offering surgery for overweight adolescents with complications from their excess weight. He has served as a consultant to the Food and Drug Administration for projects related to device treatment of pediatric obesity. He is also the Principal Investigator of two research projects funded by National Institutes of Health (NIH) and co-investigator of another NIH funded project examining the role of surgery for management of adolescent obesity. He currently serves as Study Chairman of Teen-LABS, a multicenter research consortium examining outcomes of adolescent bariatric surgery.
Dr. Inge has given over 50 invited lectures nationally and internationally over the past four years, has mentored more than a dozen fellows and students, and has authored more than 70 published chapters and manuscripts.
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Credentials
BS: College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 1987.
MD: Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 1993.
PhD: Department of Immunology and Microbiology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 1993.
Residency: General Surgery, Stanford University Hospital, Stanford, CA, 1998.
Fellowship: Pediatric Surgery, Children's Hospital of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, 2000.
Board Certification:
- Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery, December 1999.
- Certification in Pediatric Surgery, American Board of Surgery, March 2002.
Position History
Associate Professor, Division of General and Thoracic Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical, 2006 - present.
Surgical Director, Comprehensive Weight Management Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2004 - present.
Assistant Professor, Division of General and Thoracic Surgery , Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2000 - 2006.
Awards and Honors
Best Doctors in America, 2008
Research
Research Grants and Contracts
Adolescent Bariatrics-- Assessing Health Benefits & Risks (Administrative Supplement to fund additional research on risk taking behaviors). Co-Investigator. National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Drug Abuse: Administrative Supplement for Drug Abuse Research, July 2009-March 2011. #1U01DK072493-01.
Administrative Supplement for Drug Abuse Research; Adolescent Bariatrics-- Assessing Health Benefits & Risks (Administrative Supplement to fund additional research on Obstructive Sleep Apnea). Principal Investigator. National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Drug Abuse, September 2009-September 2011. #1U01DK072493-01.
Publications, Most Recent
Zeller MH, Modi AC, Noll JG, Long JD, Inge TH. Psychosocial functioning improves following adolescent bariatric surgery. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2009 May;17(5):985-90.
Inge TH, Jenkins TM, Zeller M, Dolan L, Daniels SR, Garcia VF, Brandt ML, Bean J, Gamm K, Xanthakos SA. Baseline BMI is a Strong Predictor of Nadir BMI after Adolescent Gastric Bypass. J Pediatr. 2009 Sep.
Inge TH, Xanthakos S. Sleeve Gastrectomy for Childhood Morbid Obesity: Why Not?Obes Surg, 2009.
Browne AF, Inge T. How young for bariatric surgery in children?Semin Pediatr Surg. 2009 Aug;18(3):176-85.
Pratt JS, Lenders CM, Dionne EA, Hoppin AG, Hsu GL, Inge TH, Lawlor DF, Marino MF, Meyers AF, Rosenblum JL, Sanchez VM. Best practice updates for pediatric/adolescent weight loss surgery.Obesity (Silver Spring). 2009
Miyano G, Kalra M, Inge TH. Adolescent paraplegia, morbid obesity, and
pickwickian syndrome: outcome of gastric bypass surgery.J Pediatr Surg. 2009 Mar;44(3):e41-4. PubMed PMID: 19302844.
Thomas H. Inge, MD, PhD, Go Miyano, MD, Judy Bean, PhD, Michael Helmrath, MD, Anita Courcoulas, MD, Carroll M. Harmon, MD, Mike K. Chen, MD, Kimberly Wilson, Stephen R. Daniels, MD, Victor F. Garcia, Mary Brandt, and Lawrence M. Dolan. Reversal of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Improvements in Cardiovascular Risk Factors Following Surgical Weight Loss in Adolescents.Pediatrics. 2009 Jan;123(1):214-222.
Woo JG, Zeller MH, Wilson K, Inge T. Obesity Identified by Discharge ICD-9 Codes Underestimates the True Prevalence of Obesity in Hospitalized Children.J Pediatr. 2008 Oct 23.
Modi AC, Loux TJ, Bell SK, Harmon CM, Inge TH, Zeller MH. Weight-specific health-related quality of life in adolescents with extreme obesity. Obesity 2008 Oct;16(10):2266-71
Kalra M, Mannaa M, Fitz K, Kumar S, Chakraborty R, Sheng X, Inge T. Effect of surgical weight loss on sleep architecture in adolescents with severe obesity. Obesity Surgery. 2008 Jun;18(6):675-9.
Zeller MH, Modi AC, Noll JG, Long JD, Inge TH. Psychosocial functioning
improves following adolescent bariatric surgery.Obesity (Silver Spring). 2009 May;17(5):985-90. Epub 2009 Jan 22. PubMed PMID: 19165158.
Holly M. Ippisch, Thomas H. Inge, Stephen R. Daniels, Baiyang Wang, Philip R. Khoury, Sandra A. Witt, Betty J. Glascock, Victor F. Garcia, Thomas R. Kimball, Reversibility of Cardiac Abnormalities in Extremely Overweight Adolescents. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2008 Apr 8;51(14):1342-8.
Inge TH. Childhood obesity--a problem of surgical proportions?Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 2008 Apr;5(4):180-1.
Inge T, Helmrath M, Vierra M, Ikramuddin S. Challenges of adolescent bariatric surgery: tips for managing the extremely obese teen.Journal of Laparoendoscopic and Advanced Surgical Techniques 2008 Feb;18(1):157-69.
Jafri M, Alonso M, Kaul A, Dierig J, Racadio J, Inge T, Brown R, Ryckman F, Tiao G. Intraoperative manometry during laparoscopic Heller myotomy improves outcome in pediatric achalasia.Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 2008 Jan;43(1):66-70.
Inge TH, Zeller M, Harmon C, Helmrath M, Bean J, Modi A, Horlick M, Kalra M, Xanthakos S, Miller R, Akers R, Courcoulas A. Teen-Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery: methodological features of the first prospective multicenter study of adolescent bariatric surgery. J Pediatr Surg. 2007 Nov;42(11):1969-71.
Miller RJ, Xanthakos SA, Hillard PJ, Inge TH. Bariatric surgery and adolescent gynecology.Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol. 2007 Oct;19(5):427-33.
Helmut R. Roehrig, PhD, Stavra A. Xanthakos, MD, Jenny Sweeney, RN, MSN, CPNP, Meg H. Zeller, PhD, Thomas H. Inge, MD, PhD. Pregnancy After Gastric By-Pass Surgery in Adolescents. Obesity Surgery, 17:873-877, 2007
William E. Wehrman, Christopher Tangren, and Thomas H. Inge. Cost Analysis of Ligature vs. Stapling Techniques of Laparoscopic Appendectomy in Children. Journal of Laparoendoscopic and Advanced Surgical Techniques 2007 Jun;17(3):371-4.
Thomas H. Inge, Paul Pfluger, Meg Zeller, Susan R. Rose, Lukas Burget, Sumana Sundararajan, Stephen R. Daniels and Matthias H. Tschöp. Gastric Bypass for Treatment of Hypothalamic Obesity after Craniopharyngioma Therapy. Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology and Metabolism 2007 Aug;3(8):606-9.
Christopher M. Tangren, Linda Cripe, Robert H. Beekman, III, and Thomas H. Inge. Gastric bypass and balloon valvuloplasty in the management of critical aortic stenosis in a morbidly obese adolescent. Journal of Pediatric Surgery 2007 Aug;42(8):1443-5.
Thomas H. Inge, Kimberly Wilson, Kim Gamm, Shelley Kirk, Victor F. Garcia, Stephen R. Daniels. Preferential Loss of Central (Trunk) Adiposity in Adolescents after Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass. Surgery for Obesity and Related Metabolic Diseases 2007 Mar-Apr;3(2):153-8.
Tsai WS, Inge TH, Burd RS. Bariatric surgery in adolescents: recent national trends in use and in-hospital outcome. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. 2007 Mar;161(3):217-21.
Inge TH, Wulkan M. Is open or laparoscopic pyloromyotomy better for hypertrophic pyloric stenosis?Nat Clin Pract Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2007 Feb 27.
Xanthakos SA, Inge TH. Extreme pediatric obesity: weighing the health dangers. J Pediatr. 2007 Jan;150(1):3-5.
Inge TH, Xanthakos SA, Zeller MH. Bariatric surgery for pediatric extreme obesity: now or later? Int J Obes (Lond). 2007 Jan;31(1):1-14.
Presentations, Most Recent
Metabolic Diseases in Childhood Obesity. Invited Speaker, Invited by Dr. Bob Murray. Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Columbus, OH. April 2-4, 2009.
Adolescent Bariatric Surgery: Evidenced-based Update. Invited Speaker, Invited by Drs. Ellen Rome, and Philip Schauer. Cleveland Clinic Obesity Summit. Cleveland, OH. September 10, 2009.
Adolescent Bariatric Surgery: Case presentations and discussion. Invited Workshop, Invited by Dr. Ellen Rome. Cleveland Clinic Obesity Summit. Cleveland, OH. September 10, 2009.
Updating the rationale and outcomes of weight loss surgery in youth. Invited Speaker, Invited by Paul Saenger, MD. Jpint Meeting, Lawson Wilkins Pediatric Endocrinology Society/European Society of Pediatric Endocrinology. New York City. September 11, 2009.
Invited Speaker, Invited by Dr. William Cochran. American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Gastroenterology and Nutrition. Washington, DC, October 17, 2009.
Invited Symposium Speaker, Egyptian Pediatric Surgical Association annual meeting; Invited by Dr. Alaa Hamza, President. November 20-21, 2008.
Invited Symposium Speaker, The Obesity Society; Surgical Management for Weight Loss Maintenance in Pediatrics. Invited by Program Chairman Dr. Jack Yanovski; October 4, 2008, Phoenix, AZ.
Invited Speaker and Program Committee Member, 1st World Congress on Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes. September 15-16, 2008, New York, NY.
Invited Speaker, International Congress on Endosurgery in Children; Obesity in Children: An Endoscopic Surgical Condition? Invited by Congress President Klaas Bax. September 12, 2008, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Invited Plenary Speaker for Primary Care Track, at the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, June 20, 2008. Invited by Dr. Sasha Stiles, Washington, DC.
Invited Speaker and Panelist, Adolescent Bariatric Surgery Panel, International Pediatric Endosurgical Group, Cannes, France, June 12, 2008.
Invited Speaker, Great Debates, Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS), Honolulu, HI. May 3, 2008.
Invited Speaker, Bariatric Post-graduate Course, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), Philadelphia, PA. Bariatric Surgery in the Adolescent: Band, Bypass, or Sleeve? April 4, 2008.
Invited Chairman, Adolescent Weight Loss Surgery Workshop, Annual Meeting of Society of Adolescent Medicine, Greensboro, N.C. March 28, 2008.
Invited Plenary Speaker for Annual Meeting of Society of Adolescent Medicine, Greensboro, N.C. March 28, 2008.
Visiting Professor, Pediatric Grand Rounds, The Children's Hospital of Toledo, Adolescent Bariatric Surgery. December 12, 2007, Toledo, OH.
Invited International Speaker, Adolescent Bariatric Surgery: the U.S. Perspective. Saudi Scientific Pediatric Surgery Society, 3rd Annual Meeting, King Fahd Hospital.November 28, 2007, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Invited International Panelist, Training in Pediatric Surgery: the U.S. Experience, Saudi Scientific Pediatric Surgery Society, 3rd Annual Meeting, King Fahd Hospital. November 27, 2007, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Invited Faculty, Hands-on Pediatric MIS course, Saudi Scientific Pediatric Surgery Society, 3rd Annual Meeting, King Fahd Hospital. November 26, 2007, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Invited Speaker, Pediatric MIS course, "Technique of Laparoscopic Roux en Y Gastric Bypass; Saudi Scientific Pediatric Surgery Society, 3rd Annual Meeting, King Fahd Hospital. November 26, 2007, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Invited Chairman, Bariatric Surgery Plenary Session, The Obesity Society. October 21, 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Invited Plenary Speaker,Mexican Society of Pediatric Surgery International Congress, Surgical Management of Adolescent Morbid Obesity. September 13, 2007, Merida, Mexico.
Invited Speaker, Mexican Society of Pediatric Surgery International Congress, Surgical Management of Pediatric Gastroesophageal Reflux. September 12, 2007, Merida, Mexico.
Invited Speaker, Mexican Society of Pediatric Surgery International Congress, Pediatric Obesity and Patient Safety. September 12, 2007, Merida, Mexico.
Invited Panelist and Speaker, World Federation of Associations of Pediatric Surgery, Bracing for Pectus Carinatum. September 9, 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Invited Panelist and Speaker, World Federation of Associations of Pediatric Surgery, New Standards in Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents. September 9, 2007, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Invited Speaker, St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, Adolescent Bariatric Surgery; CME event for housestaff, July 18, 2007, Florens, KY.
Invited Faculty Speaker, Monterey Obesity Symposium. Anatomy of an Adolescent Weight Management Program; Lessons Learned during Bariatric Care of Teenagers. Invited by Dr. Mark Vierra, Monterey, CA, May 10, 2007.
Invited Speaker, Digestive Disease Research Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Invited by Dr. Mitchell Cohen, May 3, 2007.
Visiting Professor, Department of Surgery, Duke University, Durham NC, March 30, 2007.
Invited Faculty: Obesity Treatment and Prevention Contemporary Symposia, Pediatric Obesity. Las Vegas, NV, March 3, 2007.
Invited Faculty Speaker, California Childhood Obesity Conference. Bariatric Surgery for Adolescents. Anaheim, CA, January 24, 2007.
Professional Organization Memberships
Service to National Organizations
- American Academy of Pediatrics Task Force on Obesity, 2003-2006
- Chairman, Adolescent Bariatric Committee of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery 2003-2004
- Member, Research Committee of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, 2003-present
- Member, Pediatric Surgery Committee of SAGES, 2002-present
- Member, Membership Committee of SAGES, 2002-2005
- Member, Publications Committee of the American Pediatric Surgery Association, 2004-present
- Subject Matter Expert and Coauthor of American Academy of Pediatrics Pedialink Obesity Module, Spring 2005
- Chairman, Steering Committee for Follow-up of Adolescent Bariatric Surgery (FABS) Multicenter Study, March 2005-present
- Member, Bariatric Committee of SAGES, 2005-present
- Co-Chairman, Research Committee of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, June 2006-June 2007
- Member, Bariatric Review Committee of Surgical Review Corporation June 2005-Present
- Member, Bariatric Review Committee of the American College of Surgeons, September 2007-present
- Expert Panel Member, Safety Issues in Bariatric Surgery: Expert Panel Meeting; Sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Rockville, MD; Invited by Dr. Carolyn Clancy, Director of AHRQ; October 14, 2004
- Consultant, Gastroenterology and Urology Therapy Device Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Rockville, MD; Invited by Dr. Aaron Yusted; November 16-17 2005 to current
- Invited External Peer Reviewer, Obesity Research Merit Review for the State of Pennsylvania Department of Health, Invited by Ms. Margaret Lyday, Project Manager, ORAU Performance Systems; January 18, 2006
- Invited Panel Member, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Workshop on Research Directions in Childhood Obesity; August 21-22, 2007
Service to International Organizations
- Treasurer, International Pediatric Endosurgical Group (IPEG), 2005 to 2008
- Member, Executive Committee of IPEG, 2005-2008
- Member, Development Committee of IPEG, 2005-present
- Member, Program Committee of IPEG, 2005-present
- Co-Chair, Program Committee of IPEG 2007-2008
Invited reviewer, Clinical and Intergrative Diabetes and Obesity (CIDO) Study Section, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health; 2008
Special Interests
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