Pankti Patel
MD, FACS, FASMBS
Pankti R. Patel, MD, FACS, FASMBS is a high-volume bariatric surgeon who is double board-certified in surgery and obesity medicine — meaning she treats obesity as the medical condition it is, with surgery as one tool among several. She has performed roughly 2,000 sleeve gastrectomies and 250 revisional procedures for patients whose earlier weight loss surgery needs correcting or converting, and also offers gastric bypass, SADI-S, and laparoscopic and robotic general surgery. She leads a multidisciplinary bariatric program spanning nutrition, psychology, and medical weight management, and manages patients’ care from evaluation through long-term follow-up. Dr. Patel trained in general surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago and completed her fellowship at Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, one of the oldest bariatric training programs in the country. Her interest in surgical technology that traces back to her undergraduate work in biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve.
