Michael Schweitzer, M.D.
Associate Professor, Surgery

Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric Surgery
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
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Contact Information and Appointments
  410.550.0409 phone

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Dr. Schweitzer's website:
www.smallscar.com

Information on StomaphyX:
www.noscarsurgery.net

  
Biography

  Michael Schweitzer, M.D., developed the laparoscopic bariatric surgery 
  programs at the Medical College of Virginia (one of the first ten laparoscopic 
  gastric bypass programs in the country), Georgetown University, Sinai 
  Hospital of Baltimore and the Johns Hopkins University, where he is currently
  a full-time faculty member. Dr. Schweitzer was the first surgeon in the mid-
  Atlantic area to perform laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and the first 
  in Maryland to perform laparoscopic adjustable gastric band surgery and
  laparoscopic duodenal switch with biliopancreatic diversion. He has 
  performed well over 1,000 laparoscopic bariatric operations to date.

  Currently chair of the membership committee for the American Society of
  Bariatric Surgeons, Dr. Schweitzer also serves as a site inspector for the 
  American College of Surgeons Bariatric Center of Excellence Program. He
  serves on three editorial boards: the Journal of Laparoendoscopic and 
  Advanced Surgical Techniques, Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases 
  (the official journal of the American Society of Bariatric Surgeons) and 
  Bariatric Times.

  Dr. Schweitzer was the first to ever publish a technique for endoscopic stoma
  reduction using transoral endoscopic suturing. A great deal of attention is 
  focused on the future of transoral surgery to avoid abdominal incisions for 
  routine surgery ("No-Scar Surgery"). Dr. Schweitzer is one of the first to apply
  this technology to bariatric patients.

  A writer of numerous papers, chapters and review articles on bariatric surgery,
  several of Dr. Schweitzer's laparoscopic bariatric surgical techniques have 
  been featured in the American College of Surgeons Cine Video Series. He is
  considered an international expert on venous thromboembolic complications
  after bariatric surgery and has one of the lowest complication rates 
  documented in world surgical literature.

  Dr. Schweitzer currently has an extremely active laparoscopic bariatric 
  practice that includes laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, laparoscopic 
  adjustable gastric band, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, laparoscopic 
  duodenal switch with biliopancreatic diversion, and revision of previous surgery.