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Internationally Renowned Bariatric Surgeon

Rami Lutfi, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.S.M.B.S.

• President, American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Foundation
• Medical Director and Section Chief of Metabolic Surgery and Weight Loss and Bariatric Fellowship Program Director at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
• Chief of Surgery at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center
• Clinical Associate Professor at University of Illinois Chicago
• Fellowship in Minimally Invasive & Bariatric Surgery: Vanderbilt University Hospital
• Former President of the Illinois Association of Bariatric Surgery
• He is one of only a few surgeons who educates new surgeons how to perform successful, minimally invasive bariatric surgery.
• One of the first five physicians trained in North America on the ORBERA® Intragastric Balloon
• Placed the 1st gastric sleeve in the state of Illinois
• First to place a gastric balloon in the Midwest.
• Performed over 2500 weight loss procedures.