Our Multidisciplinary Expert Team
The Center for Weight Loss at Cedars-Sinai employs a highly integrated, multidisciplinary team of specialists that provides personalized patient care with the best possible outcomes. Team members include:
- Weight loss surgeons who specialize in minimally invasive surgical techniques
- An internist with a speciality in obesity and nutrition
- Registered dietitian
- Physical therapists
- Specially trained and educated nurses
- Anesthesiologists
- Compassionate psychosocial support professionals
- Respiratory therapists
- Wellness and activity professionals
- Licensed Clinical Social Workers
Program Leadership
 Ted Khalili, MD, FACS Director, Center for Weight Loss; Director of Research |  Adrienne Youdim, MD Director of Medical Weight Loss, Center for Weight Loss |
 Scott A. Cunneen, MD Co-Director, Center for Weight Loss |  Edward Phillips, MD, FACS Executive Vice Chairman, Dept. of Surgery; Chief, Division of General Surgery; Director, Saul & Joyce Brandman Breast Center; Surgeon, Center for Weight Loss; Surgeon, Colorectal Cancer Program |
 Gregg K. Nishi, MD Attending Surgeon, Center for Weight Loss |  Alicia R, Ruelaz, MD Psychiatrist, Cedars-Sinai Center for Weight Loss |
- Gary N. Furman, MD, Medical Coordinator, Center for Weight Loss
- Sergey Lyass, MD, Surgeon
- Philippe J. Quilici, MD, FACS, Attending Physician
- Alexander S. Tovar, MD, Attending Surgeon
