Dr. David Melniczek

A respected, board-certified general surgeon and expert in bariatric weight loss surgery, David Melniczek, MD, contributes his expertise to the Bariatric Surgery division at Butler Memorial Hospital (part of Butler Health System in Butler, Pennsylvania) as Medical Director of Bariatric Surgery. In this role, he provides an innovative, revisional procedure for gastric bypass patients called StomaphyX. The incision-free procedure assists patients whose stomachs have stretched due to weight gain following gastric bypass surgery. David Melniczek, MD, reduces the stomach volume to help patients get back on track with their weight loss. David Melniczek, MD, inserts the StomaphyX device in the patient’s mouth and guides it into the stomach pouch, where he uses it to make folds that look like pleats. David Melniczek, MD, then staples the pleats together to make the stomach pouch smaller. David Melniczek, MD, performs the procedure on an outpatient basis.

Dr. David Melniczek also offers a host of other weight-loss surgeries and is considered an expert in the field of LAP-BAND Adjustable Gastric Banding System surgery. The procedure, which allows patients to eat less and feel full, is performed at the hospital as an outpatient procedure. After LAP-BAND surgery, patients must eat healthily and exercise to promote continued weight loss, which Dr. David Melniczek helps them address through his on-staff trainer and nutritionist. Other procedures for obese patients include vertical sleeve gastrectomies, which essentially removes half the stomach, and the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, which reduces the size of the stomach pouch to an ounce or less. Dr. David Melniczek also performs laparoscopic hernia repairs, colectomies, Nissen fundoplications, and cholecystectomies in his modern, top-of-the-line operating suites. Aside from functioning as a surgeon, Dr. David Melniczek has written articles on obesity surgery in the prestigious Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Dr. David Melniczek is the first in his family to attend college and to become a physician. Possessing a distinguished academic career, Dr. David Melniczek earned a Bachelor of Arts in Biologic Sciences from Bucknell University. Furthering his education, Dr. David Melniczek earned a Doctor of Medicine from Jefferson Medical College, where he received a full scholarship, presented research at a national ophthalmology conference, and spent a yea