News & Events: Jonathan Carter, M.D.

Sandhya Kumar, M.D., MIS/Bariatric Surgery clinical fellow at UCSF, presented her "Top 10" paper, Is laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy safer than laparoscopic gastric bypass? A comparison of complications and mortality using the MBSAQIP data registry, at the 34th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) during "Obesity Week". Kumar was the lead-off presenter in the ASMBS abstracts 2017 paper sessions on October 31st. Dr. Kumar's paper headlined a strong overall showing by UCSF Bariatric Surgery during "Obesity Week", evidencing the program's strong [...]

In a recent UCTV presentation, Jonathan Carter, M.D., Associate Professor of Surgery, discusses why Americans are increasingly obese and the medical and surgical approaches to treatment.