About Duodenal Switch, Dr. Hazem Elariny, ALAGSA

Dr. Hazem Elariny began his premedical education at the University of New Orleans in the acclaimed Honors Program. He completed his premedical education with Honors and Dean's List recognition in every semester. He attended Louisiana State University Medical School from 1986 to 1990 and earned his Medical Doctorate with a 4.0 average in medical and surgical specialties during his final year. He completed his residency in General Surgery between 1990 and 1996 at the Ochsner Clinic, New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was Honored with the post and responsibility of Chief Resident in General Surgery his final year.

Dr. Elariny is a Board Certified General Surgeon and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is an accomplished and well-respected general surgeon with a personal operative experience, as of this writing, exceeding over five thousand (5000) general surgical operations. Dr. Elariny is expert in the field of general surgery and is well familiar with and comfortable with not only the operations he performs, but also with the potential post-operative complications and their management.

Dr. Elariny attended the 1998 annual meeting of the ASBS, and was an invited guest of the 1999 annual meeting of the American Obesity Association, in Washington, DC. He has participated in Advanced Laparoscopy Courses in Atlanta, Georgia through the Advanced Laparoscopy Training Center, and in San Francisco, California, through the University of California, San Francisco. He presented original scientific data on the Vertical Gastroplasty Procedure with Sleeve Gastrectomy in March 2002 at the 8th World Congress of the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons. Dr. Elariny has earned over 500 qualified Continuing Medical Education Credits over the past five years.

Dr. Elariny is an active affiliated Faculty Member at George Mason University, in the Inova-GMU Translational Research Institute, where he participates in genomic and proteomics research to understand further the biology of obesity.