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
• 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

Program Leadership

Edward Phillips, MD, FACS Director, Center for Weight Loss; Executive Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery; Chief, Division of General Surgery; Director, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center; Surgeon, Colorectal Cancer Program	Scott A. Cunneen, MD, FACS Co-Director, Center for Weight Loss
Adrienne Youdim, MD Director of Medical Weight Loss, Center for Weight Loss	Ted Khalili, MD, FACS Director of Bariatric Surgery
Sergey Lyass, MD General Surgery	Gregg K. Nishi, MD, FACS Bariatric Surgery

• Farzin M. Feizbakhsh, MD, General Surgery
• Gary N. Furman, MD, Medical Coordinator, Center for Weight Loss*
• Philippe J. Quilici, MD, FACS, General Surgery
• Alexander S. Tovar, MD, General Surgery