Course Directors

Scott A. Shikora, MD, FACS
Professor of Surgery
Tufts University School of Medicine
Chief, Bariatric Surgery
Director, Obesity Consult Center
Tufts Medical Center

Kenneth G. MacDonald, Jr., MD, FACS
Director, Southern Surgical Associates
Greenville, North Carolina

Michael Tarnoff, MD, FACS
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Tufts University School of Medicine
Tufts Medical Center

Course Faculty

Ricardo Cohen, MD
Director, The Center for the Surgical Treatment of Morbid Obesity and Metabolic Disorders
Hospital Sao Camilo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

William Dailey, III, Esquire
Sloane and Walsh, PLLP
Boston, Massachusetts

Kimberly Gerber, PsyD
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Tufts University School of Medicine

Isaac Greenberg, PhD
Behavioral Director
Obesity Consult Center
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Tufts Medical Center

Kerri Hawkins, RD
Registered Dietician
Tufts University School of Medicine

Daniel M. Herron, MD
Chief, Section of Bariatric Surgery
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Kelvin Higa, MD
President American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Valley Surgical Specialists
Fresno, California

Lee Kaplan, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Associate Chief of Research, Gastroenterology
Co-Director, Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Director, Weight Center
Massachusetts General Hospital

Marjory Kaplan, EdD
Psychologist
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Tufts University School of Medicine

Julie Kim, MD, FACS
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Tufts University School of Medicine
Tufts Medical Center

Harry Pino, PhD
Exercise Physiologist
Assistant Clinical Professor
Tufts University School of Medicine

Jamie Ponce, MD
Dalton Surgical Group, PC
Dalton, Georgia

Bobby Lou Price, RN, BSN
Bariatric Program Coordinator
The Brody School of Medicine

Raul Rosenthal, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Ohio State School of Medicine and University of South Florida
Medical Director of The Bariatric Institute and Section Head of Minimally Invasive Surgery
Cleveland Clinic Florida

James W. Saxton, Esq.
Co-Chair of Stevens & Lee's Health Care Department and Chair of the firm's Health Care Litigation Group

J. Stephen Scott, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery
University of Missouri – Columbia
Director of Bariatrics
DePaul Health Center
Bridgeton, Missouri

Christopher Sorli, MD
Director, Endocrine Services
Billings Clinic
Billings, Montana

Charles Stemple, D.O., M.B.A.
National Medical Director
Transplant/Bariatric Services
Humana

Sasha Stiles, MD
Medical Director
Obesity Consult Center
Tufts Medical Center

Emily Wong-Swartz, MHSA, LHRM, RD, LD/N
Chair Support Group Committee ASMBS
Bariatric Specialty LLC
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Gloria Yu, RD
Registered Dietician
Tufts University School of Medicine

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