General Surgery
Provider group name:
Via Christi Clinic Founders Circle
Address:
1947 Founders' Circle
Wichita, KS 67206
Education:
Orlando Health 2011 (Residency), University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center 2006 (Medical School)
Board certifications:
American Board of Surgery
Areas of interest within specialty:
General Surgery
- Abscess
- Hernia (umbilical, inguinal, large ventral or hiatal)
- Cholecystectomy (gallbladder)
- Appendectomy
- Splenectomy
- Gastric, small bowel and colon tumors
- Colon tumors
- Pancreas
- Central venous access
- Port-a-cath placement
- Temporal artery biopsy
- Muscle biopsy
- Nerve biopsy
- Lymph node biopsy
Colorectal/Anal
- Abscess
- Anal fissures
- Hemorrhoids
- Anal fistula
Endocrine
- Thyroidectomy
- Parathyroidectomy
- Adrenalectomy
Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery
- Cholecystectomy
- Appendectomy
- Splenectomy
- Adrenalectomy
- Ventral hernia
- Inguinal hernia
- Sports hernia
- Hiatal hernia
- Fundoplication
- Laparoscopic colon and small bowel resections
- Single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS)
Surgical Management of Gastric Reflux
- Hiatal hernia
- Fundoplication
Skin and Soft Tissue
- Skin cancer
- Melanoma resection
- Sentinel lymph node biopsy for melanoma
Special procedures:
- da Vinci® Robotic surgery procedures:
- Heller myotomy
- Nissen fundoplication
- Hiatal hernia repair
- Adrenalectomy
- Cholecystectomy-now offering this procedure as a single site surgery with only one incision at the umbilicus
Year joined Via Christi:
2011
Professional memberships:
- American College of Surgeons
- Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
- Kansas Medical Society
- Medical Society of Sedgwick County
Community involvement:
- Assistant Program Director at University of Kansas University School of Medicine-Wichita
- Young Professionals of Wichita (YPW)
Gender:
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