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About Us/Overview | Why Choose UMMC? | New Bariatric Surgery Unit | Physicians and Staff | Calculate your BMI and Goal Weight | Locations
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:
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