Emory Bariatrics Center
We offer safe, supportive, and effective long-term weight loss and weight management solutions for overweight and obese individuals from the development of healthy weight loss plans to performing bariatric surgeries like gastric bypass surgery.
The Emory Weight Management Difference
Providing the best medical and behavioral options currently available as well as the safest and most effective bariatric surgery techniques, the Emory Bariatric Center in Atlanta, Georgia, partners with each patient to address their individual needs. The Center's status as an academic research program allows it to offer levels of expertise, treatment, medication and technology that community programs often can't reach.
Our expertise, and commitment to long-term weight loss are why patients come to us and refer us to friends. You can depend on us:
- to lose weight,
- for ongoing support
- to sustain healthy
- to live more comfortably
Treatment options include
Medical (Non-surgical) Options
- Consultations and lifestyle planning with physicians, nurses, dieticians, and nutritionists.
- Comprehensive weight management program: a 21-week program combining medical consultations, low-calorieliquid meal replacements, and lifestyle education classes for long-term weight-management.
- Gastric Banding - placing an adjustable (and removable) silicone band around the upper stomach to reduce stomach size.
- Gastric Bypass - reducing the stomach’s capacity and redirect the passage of food through the small intestine to limit calorie absorption.
- Sleeve Gastrectomy - permanently removing the majority of the stomach.
Our team of bariatric experts include doctors, surgeons, researchers, dieticians, and psychologists, including experts in adolescent bariatric surgery.
