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Why Choose the University of Maryland Center for Weight Management & Wellness ?

We offer a comprehensive, patient-oriented approach to treating obesity that includes long-term after care and emotional support. Our program provides patients with tools to achieve enduring weight loss through reinforcement of lifestyle changes. Dr. Mark Kligman, Director of the Center for Weight Management & Wellness, has performed over 450 bariatric procedures with outstanding weight loss achieved and few complications.

The Center expertly combines the bariatric surgery component with a medically supervised weight-loss component. Our experienced surgical team employs the latest in advanced minimally invasive–or laparoscopic–techniques. Our physician-supervised medical weight-loss program offers a number of options for patients who have had difficulty losing weight.

To address your unique needs, the members of the multidisciplinary team putting together your individualized treatment plan could include physicians and health-care professionals with expertise in disciplines that are about or impact on weight-management, such as:


This page was last updated on: July 12, 2007.

If you would like to make an appointment or talk to someone about our services, please call 1-877-866-7348 (patients) or 1-800-373-4111 or 410-328-8940 (physicians).