| Specialties/Interests Clinical - minimally-invasive laparoscopic bariatric, hernia, colon and small
intestinal, gall bladder, spleen, stomach, pancreas and endoscopic surgery,
morbid obesity, heartburn, hernia, stomach, colon and small intestinal, gall
bladder, spleen and pancreatic diseases Research - minimally-invasive surgery, transoral endoscopic surgery (no scar
surgery), laparoscopic surgery, bariatric surgery, prevention of deep venous
thrombosis, gastric pacemaker, surgical outcomes after laparoscopic surgery Johns Hopkins Center for Bariatric Surgery
Biography Michael A. Schweitzer, M.D., FACS, 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
currently is a full-time faculty member. 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's performed
well over 1000 laparoscopic bariatric operations to date. Currently chair of the membership committee for the American Society of
Bariatric Surgeons, 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
(journal of the American Society of Bariatric Surgeons) and Bariatric Times. 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, or "no-scar surgery," and Schweitzer has been the first to
apply this technology to bariatric patients. A writer of numerous papers, chapters and review articles on bariatric surgery,
several of Schweitzer's laparoscopic bariatric surgical techniques have been
featured in the American College of Surgeons Cine Video Series. He's
considered an international expert on venous thromboembolic complications
after bariatric surgery and has one of the lowest complication rates
documented in world surgical literature. 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. |
