• Metabolic Surgery for the Treatment
  of Type 2 Diabetes
• Surgery for Weight Loss and Metabolic Diseases

Our multidisciplinary program provides long-term solutions for people who continually struggle with their weight and the associated metabolic conditions such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and sleep apnea. We have a unique center where patients see a full range of specialists who work together as a team to evaluate their condition, provide counseling, determine the underlying metabolic cause of their weight, and develop an individual treatment plan. By tailoring procedures to the metabolic characteristics of each patient, surgery results in much more than loss of body weight - it also improves life expectancy and quality of life of severely obese patients.

Type 2 diabetes, which accounts for 90 to 95 percent of all cases, is a growing epidemic that afflicts more than 200 million people worldwide and is associated with significant risk of mortality and morbidity. In severely obese patients with diabetes, metabolic surgery has been shown to have dramatically reduced the risk of dying from diabetes. Improvement of blood sugar levels and the reduction or elimination of the use of diabetes medications has the potential to improve the quality of life of patients and reduce health care costs.