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Bariatric Care
Why Choose Summa - Meet Our Team
Meet Our Team
When you come to Summa for bariatric care you join a team. Your team includes your physician, the hospital staff, and your support group peers.
Surgeons
Summa is proud to offer the services of surgeons who are specially trained in bariatric surgery and have performed more than 700 weight loss procedures. The bariatric surgical team is led by John Zografakis, M.D., FACS Director of Advanced Laparoscopic and Surgical services, who is a board-certified general surgeon with fellowship training in advanced laparoscopic and bariatric procedures.
John Zografakis, M.D, FACS
Bariatric, General Surgery
John G. Zografakis, MD, FACS is board certified in general surgery and fellowship trained in advanced laparoscopic and bariatric surgery at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare. He specializes in abdominal laparoscopic surgery, minimally invasive weight loss surgery (Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding), laparoscopic treatment of abdominal/inguinal hernias, and laparoscopic colon resection for both benign and malignant disease.
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Adrian G. Dan, M.D, FACS
Bariatric, General Surgery
Adrian G. Dan, MD is board certified in general surgery and fellowship trained in advanced laparoscopic and bariatric surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He specializes in abdominal laparoscopic surgery, minimally invasive weight loss surgery (Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass and Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding), laparoscopic treatment of abdominal/inguinal hernias, and laparoscopic colon resection for both benign and malignant disease.
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William F. Fallon, Jr. M.D. MBA, FACS
Chair and Program Director, Department of Surgery
Associate Professor of Surgery, NEOUCOM
William Fallon, M.D. is with Summa Physicians, Surgery. He is board certified in Critical Care and General Surgery and specializes in Trauma Surgery.
He obtained his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts and his residency at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He is based at Summa’s Akron City Hospital where he is Department Chair for Surgery.
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Medical Weight Loss
Kenneth W Wells, MD
Internal Medicine
"My goal as a physician is to reeducate people, so they are able to be healthy and thrive," said Dr. Wells. "With regular exercise, people are more fit and age more gracefully."
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Program Team
Our team also consists of a program director, registered nurse case manager, dietitian, exercise physiologist/physical therapist and financial counselor.
Bariactric Program Nurse Practitioner
Noelle Bothe R.N, M.S.N, FNP-BC
Case Manager
Debbie Pasini, R.N., BSN
Once authorization for surgery has been obtained, Debbie is responsible for coordinating the schedule for surgery and all of the pieces that go along with that.
Registered Dietitian
Once you have enrolled in the program, the dietitian will talk to you about your current food habits and dieting history, your previous behaviors, and your expectations about surgery an about the changes that you will need to make after surgery.
Financial Services Representative
Bev Hendrickson
Once your surgeon has evaluated you, Bev will make sure that you understand your insurance benefits for weight loss surgery, that your insurance has been verified, and that you can move quickly and easily through the process
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