Exploring the Connection Between Culture & Health

Bariatric Surgery as the Founding Discipline of Trajectory Engineering

September 27, 2026

From Metabolic Intervention to a Planetary Infrastructure Robin Blackstone, MDBlackstone HealthIBC University of Oxford 2026 CongressSeptember 16, 2026 Editorial note: The talk title is preserved as delivered at Oxford. The framework formerly called “Trajectory Engineering” is now formally named Health Trajectory Engineering. The updated name is used below when referring to the framework in the…

Surgery and the Gordian knot of metabolic syndrome

July 13, 2026

ACS Metabolic Surgery Symposium — Collected Papers Surgery and the Gordian Knot of Metabolic Syndrome Robin P. Blackstone, MD, FACS; Walter J. Pories, MD, FACS; Bruce Wolfe, MD, FACS; Marc Bessler, MD, FACS; Eric J. DeMaria, MD, FACS; et al. Originally published in the Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons, January 2019;104(1):53–61. In 333…