Richard DiCicco, M.D., F.A.C.S. (left)
Lee Grossbard, M.D., F.A.C.S. (center)
Pandurangan Krishnaraj, M.D., F.A.C.S. (right)
Richard DiCicco M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. DiCicco currently belongs to the American College of Surgeons, the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, the Southeastern Surgical Congress, and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. He received his medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean, St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, where he lived during the first two years of medical school. His third and fourth years of medical school were completed in teaching hospitals in Detroit, Michigan. He completed his residency at St. Agnes Healthcare in Baltimore, Maryland, which is affiliated with Johns Hopkins Hospital. He completed extensive training in laparoscopic Bariatric surgery under the supervision of two of the leading Bariatric surgeons in Maryland. He has been in private practice since 2004, and has performed hundreds of gastric bypass operations and laparoscopic gastric bands. He was proctored to perform the Lap Band in August of 2004, and has since become a national proctor for the Allergan Lap Band as well.
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Lee J. Grossbard, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Lee J. Grossbard is an International Speaker and Proctor for the LAP-BAND Surgical Procedure. He is a member of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS). He is the President of Florida Surgical Obesity Associates, currently practicing approximately 20 miles northeast of Tampa, Florida.
Dr. Grossbard has been involved with Bariatric Surgery for twenty years. After being trained in Massachusetts for his residency, he moved to Florida in 1984. Since that time, he has been involved in multiple bariatric procedures, including the Garren Edwards Balloon, gastric stapling procedures, vertical banded gastroplasty (VBG), and gastric bypass procedures. He has been performing adjustable gastric lap-band surgery since June, 2001, when the FDA approved this procedure and is one of the most experienced lap-band surgeons in the United States. Dr. Grossbard is currently performing the gastric banding procedure exclusively.
Dr. Grossbard is Board Certified by the American Board of Surgery. He completed his residency at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA. He is one of a few physicians that not only performs the LAP-BAND Procedure, but has had the procedure performed on himself. Since October 2002 he has lost over 100 pounds! As a guest speaker for Pasco Regional Medical Center’s LAP-BAND seminars, he will offer his unique perspective from not only a physician’s point of view but, as a “bandster” patient too.
Dr Grossbard has been named by INAMED to be a founding member of the Lap-Band Leadership Institute Program. This small group of elite physicians has demonstrated the highest standards of surgical excellent and patient education as well as exceptional long-term care.
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Pandurangan Krishnaraj, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Pandurangan Krishnaraj is Board Certified by the American Board of Surgery and served as the Chief of Surgery at Pasco Regional Medical Center 2004-2006. He earned his medical Degree at Madras Medical College, Madras, Tamilnadu, India. He served his rotating internship at Government General Hospital in Madras, India, and his residency at Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn & Queens, Jamaica, NY. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the American Society of General Surgeons and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
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