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Scott Alan Shikora, MD, FACS

Scott Alan Shikora, MD, FACS; SurgeonDr. Scott Shikora is the Surgical Director of the Obesity Consult Center, and is an Associate Professor of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine. He has been a faculty member of the Department of Surgery at Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts since 1995.

Dr. Shikora is board-certified in General Surgery, Critical Care and Clinical Nutrition. A graduate of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York City, he currently does research into respiratory physiology and ventilator dependence, bariatric medicine and bariatric surgery, parenteral and enteral nutrition, and critical care medicine and intensive care physiology. Dr Shikora is the President-elect of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.PE.N.) and is an active member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (S.A.G.E.S) and the American Society for Bariatric Surgery (A.S.B.S).

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Michael Tarnoff, MD

Michael Eric Tarnoff, MD; SurgeonDr. Tarnoff is a board-certified member of the full time faculty in the department of surgery at the Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, MA. He also serves as an assistant professor of surgery at the Tufts University School of Medicine.

Dr. Tarnoff is a member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Laparoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) as well as the American Society for Bariatric Surgery (ASBS). He is currently an associate fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Tarnoff’s clinical activity focuses on minimally invasive approaches to various general surgical problems.

His undergraduate degree is from Washington University. He attended medical school and completed his general surgical residency at the University of Medicine and Dentristry of New Jersey – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Upon finishing his residency training, Dr. Tarnoff completed a one year fellowship in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland Ohio.

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