General and Gastrointestinal Surgery at Emory
One of the country's leading minimally invasive surgery centers
Based in Atlanta, GA, the Division of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery at Emory has been involved in refining and developing minimally invasive procedures since the early 1990s. Our surgeons perform single incision laparoscopic surgery for resection of colon cancer, laparoscopic gallbladder and appendix operations using one-to-two incisions rather than the standard three-to-five, and laparoscopic-assisted formal liver resections. They also provide laparoscopic, endoscopic, and open procedures for treating inflammatory bowel, colorectal, endocrine, gallbladder, pancreatic, esophageal, and gastric diseases as well as intra-abdominal infections, hernias and morbid obesity.
In addition to advancing the technology and methods of laparoscopic and endoscopic surgery, research efforts by division faculty include ground-breaking diabetes and parathyroid disease investigations, the pathophysiology of insulin resistance in the severely obese, and inflammatory response syndrome and metabolic alterations related to gastrointestinal surgery.
