Bariatric Gastric Surgery Expert Witness

Expert Witness No.2860

Personal

Date of Birth: February 5, 1928

Place of Birth:  Cape Town, South Africa

Citizenship:    United States

Professional

License currently held:         

Florida

Licenses previously held:    

South Africa

United Kingdom  

Saskatchewan, Canada;

Montana

West Virginia

Education

Pre-Med Education: B.Sc., University of Cape Town South Africa, 1948

Medical Education:   M.B., Ch.B., University of Cape Town South Africa, 1951

Post-Graduate Diplomasnor and Qualifications: F.R.C.S., 1957: Fellow (Diplomate)
Royal College of Surgeons of England

L.R.C.P., M.R.C.S., 1963: Licentiate of

Royal College of Physicians of London, Member of  Royal College of Surgeons of England
           
Certified by American Board of Abdominal Surgery,  1985
                                               

Societies: 

Fellow International College of Surgeons, Since 1994
                                         

Regular Member American Society for Bariatric Surgery, Since 1986

Previously ASBS, Now ASMBS (American Society for Metabolic and Bariatricsurgery)                   

Fellow American Society of  Abdominal Surgery, since 1985   

           
Southern Medical Association, since 1970
           
Eastern Panhandle Medical Society, Martinsburg, WV (Past President) 1969
                       
American Medical Association, since 1968         

Hospital Privileges in Broward County, FL:

1985 to 1986   Las Olas General Hospital
Active Surgical Privileges Including obesity surgery
           
1986 to 1989 University Hospital, Tamarac
Active Privileges in General Surgery

1986 to 1996 Doctors General Hospital

Name changed to: Universal Medical Center
Name changed to: Florida Medical Center South

Active Surgical Privileges Including Obesity Surgery

Member Credentials committee

Chairman Surgical Care Review Committee

Chief of Surgery                   

Medical Director Obesity Surgery Program         
 
1996  to 2007:    Kindred  (Vencor) Hospital, Active Privileges in General Surgery and Obesity Surgery, Medical Director Obesity Surgery Program                     
                       
1998 to 2007: Plantation General Hospital, Active Privileges in Obesity Surgery                                           
Medical Director Obesity Surgery Program

2007/2008  Affiliate  Privileges
                       
Training and Experience:

1/52 to 3/53   Rotating and Surgical Internship at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

3/53 to 10/53 Senior Intern, Casualty Dept., Woolwich Memorial(six months Emergency Surgery)Hospital, London, England

10/53 to 2/54 Senior Intern, London Jewish Hospital, London, (Five Months General Surgery) England

3/54 to 7/54   Senior Intern, St. Vincent’s Orthopedic Hospital,(Five Months Orthopedics)Middlesex, England

10/54 to 12/54 Full time course in Basic Medical Sciences at(Three Months Basic Science)Royal College of Surgeons, London, England

2/55 to 9/55   Surgical Registrar in S.E. Metropolitan Regional (Seven Months General Surgery)Hospitals, London, England

9/55 to 10/57 Resident Surgical Officer, Dulwich Hospital(Two Years General Surgery)(Affiliated with  Kings College Hospital forTeaching) London, England

11/57 to 1/58 Resident Medical Officer, Dept. Of Ophthalmology,(Two Months Ophthalmology)Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

1/58 to 12/58 Surgical Registrar, Somerset Hospital, Cape Town,(One Year General Surgery)South Africa

1/59 to 3/59   Surgical Registrar, Casualty Dept. Groote Schuur (Three Months Emergency)Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

4/59 to 12/60 Surgeon in Group Practice, Johannesburg, South (Eighteen Months General Surgery) Africa

12/60 to 6/61 Orthopedic Registrar, Groote Schuur Hospital,(Six Months Orthopedics)Cape Town, South Africa

6/61 to 10/61 Medical Officer, Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic (British Colonial Office appointment)

1/62 to 3/62   British Medical Research Council, research grant (Three Months Research)re: Tristan da Cunha Islanders

6/62 to 12/62 Senior Hospital Medical Officer (Surgery and Six Months General Surgery Casualty) Victoria Hospital, Accrington, England

2/63 to 11/65 Group Practice, Estevan Sask., Canada(Three Years General Surgery)

1/66 to 1/68   Surgeon Private  Practice, Chester and Poplar,  Montana

4/68 TO 9/85 Martinsburg, West Virginia, Private Practice General Surgery.

Commenced Practice of Obesity Surgery In 1984.

1986 TO 1992 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, General Surgery And Surgery For Obesity.
           
1992 TO 2006 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Practice Restricted To Obesity Surgery. 

Total number of obesity operations performed approximates 2,000. The majority have been Roux-en-Y gastric bypasses, with approximately 300 vertical banded gastroplasties and numerous revisional bariatric surgeries, both those of other surgeons and of my own.

Since 2005 I have been engaged in the establishment of the first comprehensive Obesity Surgery Center in Asia in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I have personally trained and proctored two surgeons in the performance of laparoscopic gastric bypasses at Damansara Specialist Hospital in Kuala Lumpur. I have also trained these surgeons in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

I have also personally been involved in assisting Damansara Specialist Hospital and all ancillary staff in the requirements for establishing a first rate Center.
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The Center is now open and is performing obesity surgery on local patients as well as patients from the USA.

In March 2006 I was invited by Ken Jones MD, Past President of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, to participate in the ASBS Investigative Committee, a subcommittee of the Ethical Advisory committee. Dr. Jones is Chair of the Professional Conduct Subcommittee. I have served as a  member of other committees of  the ASBS in past years, including the Surgical Access Committee and the Public and Professional Education Committees.