Bariatric Surgery
Leadership
Name:
Alec Beekley, MD
Position:
Division Director
1100 Walnut Street
5th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Email:
Alec.Beekley@jefferson.edu
Contact Number(s):
Research
Our faculty members publish in peer-reviewed journals, author book chapters and present frequently at local and national conferences.
Recent Publications
- National trends in utilization and safety of gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy and conversion surgery in patients with GERD
- K. normal foregut function after bariatric surgery
- Effect of obesity on foregut physiology
- Weight loss and clinical outcomes following primary versus secondary Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: a multi-institutional experience
- Revisional bariatric surgery for weight recurrence or surgical nonresponse
- Increased incidence of marginal ulceration following conversion of sleeve gastrectomy to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: a multi-institutional experience
- Comment on: Long-term resolution of type 2 diabetes after biliopancreatic diversion and duodenal switch procedure: a retrospective analysis from a high-volume institution
- Revisional bariatric surgery: a review of workup and management of common complications after bariatric surgery
- Defining Global Benchmarks in Elective Secondary Bariatric Surgery Comprising Conversional, Revisional, and Reversal Procedures
- Trends in the utilization and perioperative outcomes of primary robotic bariatric surgery from 2015 to 2018: a study of 46,764 patients from the MBSAQIP data registry
- Health disparity in access to bariatric surgery
- Achalasia and obesity: patient outcomes and impressions following laparoscopic Heller myotomy and Dor fundoplication
- Evolving procedural options for the treatment of obesity
- Six-month readmissions after bariatric surgery: Results of a nationwide analysis
- Value-based Surgical Care: Evidence for the Enigma
- A multicenter study of routine versus selective intraoperative leak testing for sleeve gastrectomy
- An Overview of the Safety of Bariatric Surgery
- Ideal Body Weight Calculation in the Bariatric Surgical Population
- Gastric bypass: Time for a change?
- The economic costs of obesity and the impact of bariatric surgery