Weight Loss Center Expert Team

The Weight Loss Center 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
• Internists who specialize in obesity and nutrition
• Registered dietitians
• Physical therapists
• Certified Bariatric Nurses
• Anesthesiologists
• Mental health professionals with expertise in eating disorders
• Respiratory therapists

Leadership

Adrienne Youdim MD Medical Director, Cedars-Sinai Weight Loss Center	Edward Phillips MD FACS Executive Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery and Chief, Division of General Surgery Director, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center - A Project of Women's Guild Director, Wasserman Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Program Director, Weight Loss Center Karl Storz Chair in Minimally Invasive Surgery in Honor of Dr. George Berci
Scott A. Cunneen MD, FACS Co-Director, Bariatric Surgery Member, Weight Loss Center

Team Members

Miguel Burch MD Associate Director of General Surgery and Minimally Invasive Surgery in the Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery	Farzin Feizbakhsh MD General Surgery
Sergey Lyass MD General Surgery	Ruchi Mathur MD Director, Diabetes Program, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Endocrinologist, Weight Loss Center
Shahab Mehdizadeh MD MA Attending Physician, Division of Gastroenterology	Alexis Peraino MD Internal Medicine
Mark Pimentel MD, FRCPC Director, GI Motility Program Director, GI Motility Laboratory	Edy E. Soffer MD Co-Director, GI Motility Laboratory
Leo Treyzon MD MS Gastroenterology	Michael Wetter Psy.D. Associate Director, Psychology

• Monali Misra MD, FRCSC, FACS
  Surgeon
  

Emeritus*

Gary N. Furman MD, FACS Medical Coordinator, Weight Loss Center

Candidate Participant**

• Carson David Liu MD, FACS
  Surgery
  

Other Participating Physicians

• Julian A. Gold, MD - Anesthesiology
• Payman Vahedifar, MD - Internal Medicine, Nephrology

* Emeritus

** Candidate Participant (indicates physicians who have met candidate level participation and who are in the process of fulfilling the requirements to become a full participant in the center)