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; Director, Wasserman Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Program; Surgeon, Colorectal Cancer Program	Scott A. Cunneen, MD, FACS Co-Director, Bariatric Surgery; Member, Center for Weight Loss
Adrienne Youdim, MD Director of Medical Weight Loss, Center for Weight Loss	Ted Khalili, MD, FACS Director of Bariatric Surgery
Farzin M. Feizbakhsh, MD General Surgery	Sergey Lyass, MD General Surgery
Gregg K. Nishi, MD, FACS Member, Center for Weight Loss, General Surgery	Thomas Rosko, MD Director, Psychosomatic Medicine Services

• Gary N. Furman, MD, Medical Coordinator, Center for Weight Loss*
• Julian Gold, MD, Anesthesiology

Other Participating Team Members

• Alexis Peraino, MD  Internal Medicine - candidate participant**
• Leo Treyzon, MD, MS  Gastroenterology - candidate participant**