Inside Business, March 3, 2008
Dr. Margaret Gaglione of Tidewater Bariatrics in Chesapeake received the James J. Leonard Award for Excellence in Teaching Internal Medicine from The Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD. The award recognizes Dr. Gaglione's commitment to education, patient care and the mission of training medical officers at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth. Dr. Gaglione is the founder and medical director of Tidewater Bariatrics, which specializes in the non-surgical medical treatment of overweight and obese patients. She is credited with helping 100 local patients safely lose more than 2,000 pounds of weight in eight months, including discontinuing or decreasing 26 medications.
