John Rode, MD, MS

ALT Blue promotional graphic for a medical symposium session. The headline reads "Topic: Hot Shots: The Latest in Adolescent Bariatric Surgery Research." A gray box in the upper right announces the Surgical Care of Obesity in Pediatrics Symposium (SCOPeS) on May 5, 2026, from 8 A.M. to 5 P.M. CST, approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. The Speakers section features headshots of John B. Rode, MD, MS, Pediatric Surgery Research Fellow at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital, and Christine Brichta, MD, MPH, DABOM, Pediatric Transplant Hepatology Fellow at the same hospital. A lighter blue Moderators panel below shows Lindel C.K. Dewberry, MD, MSCS, FACS, Assistant Professor of Surgery at Golisano Children's, University of Kentucky, and Colton D. Wayne, MD, MS, Surgical Research Fellow at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

ALT Flyer for the Surgical Care of Obesity in Pediatrics Symposium (SCOPeS), an in-person event on May 5, 2026, from 8 AM to 5 PM CST at Lurie Children’s Conference Venue in Chicago. The symposium focuses on improving surgical care for pediatric obesity and offers AMA PRA Category 1 Credit, with session recordings available afterward.