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Fellowship Training

Fellowship training offers physicians the opportunity
to obtain additional, specialty-focused education
after the completion of residency training. The ability
of a hospital to provide care by fellowship trained
physicians is a strong indicator of a higher level of care.
Completion of a fellowship means a surgeon has spent
additional time developing in-depth knowledge and
surgical expertise in their chosen specialty.

Summa Health offers a one-year fellowship All four of the surgeon’s at Summa’s Bariatric
in minimally invasive surgery with a focus on Care Center are fellowship trained as follows:
advanced laparoscopic and weight reductive
surgery. It is a collaborative effort between • John G. Zogafakis, M.D., FACS, FASMBS:
the department of surgery and Summa Health Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
Foundation. The fellow works closely with
the four attending surgeons in our bariatric • Adrian G. Dan, M.D., FACS, FASMBS:
surgery program, performing high volumes Cleveland Clinic Foundation
of minimally invasive weight reductive and
general surgeries. The fellow also works with • Mark Pozsgay, D.O., FASMBS:
the Bariatric Care Center team, developing University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
expertise in the clinical management of
patients. • Tyler Bedford, M.D.:
Summa Health

This fellowship is now in its seventh year,
having started in 2011. It is accredited by the
MIS Fellowship Council for dual Minimally
Invasive Surgery (MIS) and Bariatric Surgery.
Led by fellowship program director, Adrian G.
Dan, M.D., FACS, FASMBS, it is Summa’s only
general surgery fellowship.

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