Lap-Band development & proctoring
Clinical application of the Lap-Band system and surgeon proctoring across North America.
Innovation & Research
Devices, techniques, and platforms that shaped modern bariatric surgery.
Innovation in surgery is not invention for its own sake — it is the disciplined translation of clinical need into safer, more effective care. The work below spans surgical technique, medical devices, broadcasting infrastructure, and education.
Surgical innovations & techniques
Stomach Sparing Gastric Sleeve®
Refined sleeve technique designed to preserve gastric function while maintaining metabolic benefit.
Banding of a failed gastric bypass
First reported use of banding to rescue a failing gastric bypass — a technique now adopted by revisional bariatric surgeons.
Adolescent bariatric surgery
Among the earliest series operating on adolescent patients with severe obesity, with a published teenage cohort.
Devices & medical engineering
Obalon Swallowable Intragastric Balloon
Primary clinical investigator on the Obalon swallowable intragastric balloon (Obalon Therapeutics Inc.). Profiled by Fox News, ABC News, ABC7 New York, and Harper's Bazaar in 2014 as the public face of the device during international clinical use.
Calibra™ Calibration Device
Surgical instrument designed to standardize sleeve calibration.
Stomagic
Engineering project supporting bariatric surgical workflow.
Vitaleph Engineered Nutrition
Post-bariatric nutrition product engineered for long-term metabolic support.
Medical media & broadcasting
QuoVadis Productions
Medical media production for surgical education and patient communication.
IBC-TV / Bariatric Surgery Online Television
International broadcasting channel for live surgery, education, and surgeon-to-surgeon training.
Live surgical broadcasts
Infrastructure for live, narrated bariatric procedures used as global training events.
360° / Virtual Reality surgery education
Facebook Live 360° bariatric surgery streams and immersive surgical training assets.
Education platforms
IBC–Oxford University Congress
Co-Director of an international educational congress hosted at Oxford.
Hospital CYNTAR® training programs
Surgeon and resident training in bariatric and minimally invasive surgery.
Patient education library
Long-running library of patient-facing videos on sleeve, bypass, revision, metabolic disease, and Q&A webinars.