Dr. Scott Steinberg of DeKalb Medical

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This week, Dr. Scott Steinberg of DeKalb Medical is discussing surgical weight loss and laparoscopic surgery.

Dr. Scott Steinberg of DeKalb Medical

Dr. Scott D. Steinberg is board certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He received his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York in 1995.

He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and has lectured on various surgical topics at national meetings throughout the country.

Dr. Steinberg is a fellowship-trained advanced laparoscopic surgeon. He is a member of the American College of Surgeons and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. He completed a colorectal oncology research fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

Dr. Steinberg performs all types of laparoscopic and open hernia surgeries. His practice emphasizes the minimally invasive approach to manage benign and malignant diseases of the breast, colon, gallbladder, stomach, spleen, thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands.

Dr. Steinberg is the Medical Director of the Surgical Weight Loss Center at Dekalb Medical. This center has been designated as an ASMBS Center of Excellence in Bariatric Surgery. He has performed over 2,000 laparoscopic gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, and lap band procedures for morbid obesity.

He has also served as the Chief of the Department of Surgery at DeKalb Medical and is on the Board of Directors of the DeKalb Surgical Alliance.