{"id":1964,"date":"2012-05-05T19:07:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T23:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/?page_id=1964"},"modified":"2024-11-25T08:52:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T13:52:23","slug":"bariatric-surgery-weight-loss-surgery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/clinical-services\/bariatric-surgery-weight-loss-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimally Invasive and Weight Loss Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Appointments\/Referrals: 617.414.8052<\/h5>\n<p>The Minimally Invasive and Weight Loss Surgery team understands the challenges for those living with obesity and works with each patient to find the best treatment and surgical option. <span>At Boston Medical Center, we offer two types of weight loss surgery: gastric bypass and gastric sleeve (vertical sleeve gastrectomy). In addition, we have extensive experience in revision weight loss surgery to treat complications associated with previous bariatric surgeries.\u00a0<\/span>Our surgeons have performed thousands of successful operations and our Weight Loss Surgery Program is recognized as a Center of Excellence by the American College of Surgeons.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment9979\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment9979\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/surgery\/files\/2022\/01\/Dr.-Hess-with-patient-2014-450x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" class=\"wp-image-9979 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/files\/2022\/01\/Dr.-Hess-with-patient-2014-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/files\/2022\/01\/Dr.-Hess-with-patient-2014-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/files\/2022\/01\/Dr.-Hess-with-patient-2014.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment9979\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Donald Hess, Chief of Minimally Invasive and Weight Loss Surgery, examines a patient.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Our Team<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/people\/donald-hess\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Hess, MD<br \/>\n<\/a><em>Chief, Minimally Invasive and Weight Loss Surgery<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Associate Professor of Surgery<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/people\/brian-carmine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brian Carmine, MD<br \/>\n<\/a><em>Assistant Professor of Surgery<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=8681&amp;action=edit\">Joshua Davies, MD<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Assistant Professor of Surgery<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/people\/jacob-nudel-md\/\">Jacob Nudel, MD<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Assistant Professor of Surgery<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Luise Pernar, MD\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/people\/luise-pernar-md\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luise Pernar, MD, MHPE<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Associate Professor of Surgery<\/em><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appointments\/Referrals: 617.414.8052 The Minimally Invasive and Weight Loss Surgery team understands the challenges for those living with obesity and works with each patient to find the best treatment and surgical option. At Boston Medical Center, we offer two types of weight loss surgery: gastric bypass and gastric sleeve (vertical sleeve gastrectomy). In addition, we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3690,"featured_media":0,"parent":61,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12166,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1964\/revisions\/12166"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}