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Jaime Ponce, M.D., FACS
Chairman, Bariatric Surgery Review Committee
Dalton Surgical Group, PC
Dalton, Georgia
Dr. Ponce is a private practitioner in Dalton, Georgia and Chattanooga, Tennessee. He received his medical degree from I.T.E.S.M. School of Medicine in Monterrey, Mexico in 1990 and completed a General Surgery Residency at East Tennessee State University. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed surgical journals and has been a lecturer/speaker for both domestic and international congresses and courses. He has been a principal investigator for the FDA and is a consultant and proctor for Allergan and Ethicon and their gastric banding products. Dr. Ponce is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honorary Medical Society, a fellow of the ACS and maintains memberships in the ASMBS, IFSO and Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons. Dr. Ponce and his program are designated as an ASMBS BSCOE. He serves on the Board and the Executive Committee as Chairman of the Bariatric Surgery Review Committee (BSRC). |
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Mohamed Ali, M.D., FACS
Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery
Director, Minimally Invasive, Robotic and Bariatric Surgery
Davis, California
Dr. Mohamed Ali is the Director, Minimally Invasive, Robotic and Bariatric Surgery at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine and directs the minimally invasive surgery practice for UC Davis Health System. He specializes in the application of minimally invasive surgical techniques to conventional surgery, surgery of the foregut including reflux and achalasia, and laparoscopic bariatric surgery. His research focuses on long-term outcomes and co-morbidity reduction in bariatric surgery, applying emerging technology and robotics to laparoscopy, and investigating the genetic and hormonal bases for obesity. Dr. Ali received his medical degree in 1995 from the Medical University of South Carolina and is certified by the American Board of Surgery. He is a member of the American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association and Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons. Dr. Ali and his program are designated as an ASMBS BSCOE.
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Gary Anthone, M.D., FACS
Director of Bariatric Surgery
Nebraska Methodist Hospital
Omaha, Nebraska
Dr. Anthone is Director of Bariatric Surgery at the Nebraska Methodist Hospital. Dr. Anthone graduated from Creighton University Medical School, where
he stayed to complete his general surgery training. He has also completed
fellowships at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and at the
University of Southern California in Los Angeles. A board certified surgeon, he specializes in
bariatric surgeries. Previously he served as Director of the Bariatric
Surgery program for 12 years at the University Of Southern California School of
Medicine. He has published
numerous articles and book chapters in the field of bariatric surgery. Dr. Anthone and his program are designated as an ASMBS BSCOE. |
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John W. Baker, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Little Rock, Arkansas
Dr. Baker has been in private practice in Little Rock, Arkansas since 1992. Dr. Baker completed a six-year accelerated medical degree program through Louisiana State University Medical Center at Shreveport in 1983. He completed his General Surgery training in 1988 at LSU Hospital in Shreveport. He is a member of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity, American College of Surgeons, American Medical Association and the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. He has worked on numerous committees of the ASMBS. Dr. Baker is Secretary-Treasurer for NOVUS Insurance Company. He has also participated in the International Bariatric Surgery Registry (IBSR) and served on its Medical Advisory Committee. Dr. Baker and his program are designated as an ASMBS BSCOE. He serves on the Board as President-elect of the ASMBS.
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T. Karl Byrne, M.D., FACS
Professor of Surgery
Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Dr. Byrne serves as Medical Director of
the Weight Loss Surgery Program and Professor of Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina. Board certified by the American College of Surgeons, he earned his medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland in 1978 and completed two residencies — Jervis Street Hospital in Dublin, Ireland and Medical College of
Virginia in Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Byrne is a fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons, in Ireland and a member of The American Society for Bariatric Surgery. Dr. Byrne and his program are designated as an ASMBS BSCOE. |
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Giselle G. Hamad, M.D., FACS
Assistant Professor of
Surgery
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Dr. Hamad serves as
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Associate Program Director for the Department
of Surgery, and Director of Education in Minimally Invasive Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. A board certified surgeon, Dr. Hamad is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
She completed her residency at the Medical College of Virginia/Virginia
Commonwealth University, and completed a fellowship in Minimally Invasive
Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a past chairman of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric
Surgery Communications Committee. Dr. Hamad and her program are designated as an ASMBS BSCOE. |
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Gregory L. Schroder, M.D., FACS
Associate Clinical Professor of
Surgery
Medical College of Virginia
Richmond, Virginia
Dr. Schroder currently serves as an Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery at
the Medical College of Virginia, as Chairman of the Department of Surgery at
Henrico Doctor's Hospital and as Chairman of the St. Mary's Hospital Cancer
Committee He received his medical degree from the Medical College of Virginia
in 1982 and is certified in General Surgery by the American Board of Surgery. His special areas of focus include general surgery, breast surgery, laparoscopic surgery and surgical weight loss. A fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Schroder is President of the Virginia Bariatric Society and chairperson of the State Chapters Committee of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. He serves as a proctor in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery and Bariatric Surgery. Dr. Schroder and his program are designated as an ASMBS BSCOE. |
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Harvey J. Sugerman, M.D., FACS
Emeritus Professor
Virginia Commonwealth University
Sanibel, Florida
Dr. Sugerman graduated from Johns Hopkins University and the Jefferson
University School of Medicine in 1966. He spent two years in the Army in
Nurenberg, Germany and as Lieutenant Colonel at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Dr.
Sugerman began at the Virginia Commonwealth University in 1978, where he was
the David M. Hume Professor of Surgery and Chief of the General Surgery and
Trauma Division. He is retired from clinical practice and is Emeritus Professor
of Surgery. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts, 20 books and
55 book chapters, many dealing with the improvement in obesity co-morbidity
following surgically induced weight loss, as well as the first randomized trial
comparing vertical banded gastroplasty to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. He is a
past-president of the ASMBS and is currently Editor-in-Chief of Surgery for
Obesity and Related Diseases (SOARD), the official peer-reviewed
journal of the ASMBS.
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Mark Vierra, M.D., FACS
Director
Bariatric
Surgical Services at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula
Monterey, California
Dr. Vierra is currently Director of Bariatric Surgical Services at Community
Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, in Monterey, California. He is a graduate
of Harvard Medical School and completed his surgical residency at Stanford in
1990. He began the bariatric surgical program at Stanford in 1991 and directed
that program until 2001. His practice is devoted primarily to complex foregut
surgery and bariatric surgery. He has authored approximately 45 manuscripts and
book chapters. Dr. Vierra and his program are designated as an ASMBS BSCOE. |