Paula Beam

For more information or to register, please call Paula Beam, nurse coordinator, Surgical Weight Loss Center, at (215) 481-3500.You can also download, print and fill out the Registration portion of the "Walk From Obesity" flyer, and return to Paula Beam.

Paula Beam, RN

A registered nurse, Paula Beam has extensive experience educating weight loss surgery patients. She speaks of it knowingly from two perspectives - as a nurse and as a patient. Paula, the clinical nurse educator for the Institute for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, was the first laparoscopic gastric bypass patient of Fernando Bonanni, Jr., M.D., director of the Institute for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
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Paula Beam celebrates February 27, not as her birthday, but as her rebirth. That's the day, in 2001, when she underwent laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery.

An overweight child who lost her excess weight in her 20s, she regained it three years later during her first pregnancy and found it harder and harder to lose weight. She developed joint problems, her blood pressure began to climb, and she found herself out of breath climbing stairs and trying to keep up with her young children.

After working an eight-hour hospital shift, she felt so much joint pain in her knees, legs and hips that she could barely get around. She weighed 240 pounds.

"I tried every diet in the world," she says.

A registered nurse, Paula Beam has extensive experience educating weight loss surgery patients. She speaks of it knowingly from two perspectives - as a nurse and as a patient. Paula, the clinical nurse educator for the Institute for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, was the first laparoscopic gastric bypass patient of Fernando Bonanni, Jr., M.D., director of the Institute for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
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Paula Beam celebrates February 27, not as her birthday, but as her rebirth. That's the day, in 2001, when she underwent laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery.

An overweight child who lost her excess weight in her 20s, she regained it three years later during her first pregnancy and found it harder and harder to lose weight. She developed joint problems, her blood pressure began to climb, and she found herself out of breath climbing stairs and trying to keep up with her young children.

After working an eight-hour hospital shift, she felt so much joint pain in her knees, legs and hips that she could barely get around. She weighed 240 pounds.

"I tried every diet in the world," she says.

Information: 215-481-3519, Paula Beam, R.N.

Paula Beam, R.N., clinical nurse educator;