NYU Langone

The revolutionary NYU Langone Weight Management Program brings together some of the top bariatric surgeons in the country, allowing them to cross-collaborate on treatment modalities to establish unique weight reduction strategies for patients with obesity. Headquartered in the NYU Langone Medical Center, the NYU Langone Weight Management Program emphasizes a combination of surgical and nonsurgical weight loss options for patients with life-threatening and unmanageable cases of obesity. The physicians and surgeons of the NYU Langone Weight Management Program maintain impressive histories in the field. NYU Langone Weight Management Program's Dr. George Alexander Fielding, an Associate Professor of Surgery at NYU School of Medicine, helped develop laparoscopic and bariatric surgery techniques over the last three decades. A patient of LAP-BAND surgery himself, Dr. Fielding possesses specialized experience operating on adults and children with extreme obesity and has conducted upwards of 5,500 weight loss surgeries, many at NYU Langone Weight Management Program. Dr. Christine Ren-Fielding of the NYU Langone Weight Management Program also serves as an Associate Professor of Surgery at the NYU School of Medicine. Her credentials including performing gastric band surgery more than 2,500 times and contributing to the creation of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes for the bariatric surgery field. Serving as Medical Director of the NYU Langone Weight Management Program, Dr. Marina Kurian specializes in the use of minimally invasive techniques in laparoscopic surgery. Working as an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the NYU School of Medicine, Dr. Kurian has performed more than 1,700 weight loss procedures and has appeared on such programs as The Today Show and Dateline NBC to discuss laparoscopic surgery. As the newest member of the NYU Langone Weight Management Program, Dr. Bradley Schwack also works as an NYU Assistant Professor of Surgery and focuses particularly on revisionary techniques in bariatric surgery. For further information on the NYU Langone Weight Management Program, call (212) 263-3166. Inquiries on the NYU Langone Weight Management Program's procedures or payment options may also be submitted online at the clinic's website.