Real Skinny on Weight Loss Surgery An Indispensable Guide to What You Can Really Expect!

Dr. Baker specializes in bariatric surgery and has had significant experience as a general surgeon prior to his bariatric practice. He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgery. He completed a Fellowship in Critical Care and holds an additional certificate for Critical Care through the American Board of Surgery. Dr. Baker presently serves as the Medical Director of the Surgical Intensive Care Units at Spectrum Hospital, and is an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Michigan State University. He is a member of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, the American Medical Association, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Baker is also a 2005 award nominee for the Outstanding Achievement Award of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery Foundation. This award is given for significant contributions to the advancement of bariatric surgery, and representation of the highest ideals of the ASBS. As a nominee for this award Dr. Baker stands alongside some of the greatest medical minds in the world today, and his innovative ideas and contributions are most worthy of the praise. He is also a proud past recipient of the American College of Surgeons Transplantation Award. Dr. Baker has researched, published, and lectured extensively on the topics of morbid obesity, bariatric surgery, and surgical critical care, and is on the Editorial Board of the prestigious Obesity Surgery Journal, a publication of international reputation in the medical community. He also helped develop a bio-absorbable staple line product to decrease bleeding and leaks from staple lines. This product won the 2002 American Medical Innovation of the Year award. Following the development of that sealant, Drs. Baker, Foote, and Kemmeter presented and published a landmark study on The Science of Stapling and Leaks” in the Obesity Surgery Journal. Portions of this research were presented at the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity (IFSO) Conference in Spain in 2003. The research received the prestigious international INAMED Award. The credentials that he considers most important though, are those of husband and father of nine (yes… 9…) wonderful children! (No, he is not Catholic or Mormon, which are the most common questions he and his wife are asked when out in public.) He is a caring and attentive family man, and has even been known to take the afternoon off work to take all of his children to see a Harry Potter movie. In addition to all his amazing credentials, he is actually a caring doctor with a wonderful bedside manner! It helps to have a doctor with a good sense of humor, but he’s also very careful not to make you laugh right after surgery. Dr. Baker is also just an all around nice person who cares deeply about his patients, attempting to help them find new, healthy, and enjoyable lives. He and his partners have surrounded themselves with staff of a similar ethic, those who have intense emJaneway, Julie M. is the author of 'Real Skinny on Weight Loss Surgery An Indispensable Guide to What You Can Really Expect!', published 2005 under ISBN 9780976767282 and ISBN 0976767287.