Since 1989, we've been helping people in Las Vegas overcome their lifelong battle with being overweight, through surgical procedures.

To ensure that surgery is the right choice for potential patients, we provide them with the most information possible. Our relationship and commitment to you begins before surgery and continues for a lifetime, after surgery.

Our Practice introduced bariatric surgery into Nevada.  In 1989, our surgeons performed the very first gastric bypass in our state’s history.  Shortly afterwards, we performed the first Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass operation and the first Gastric Band procedure, as well.  To date, our program has performed over 3,000 operations.

Today, Gastric Band Institute stands as one of the leading “Centers of Excellence” in the southwest.   Our doctors have trained over 100 surgeons from across the country how to perform these operations.  We have traveled across the country to assist surgeons in performing their first cases.  We have developed surgical techniques that are used in bariatric centers across the country as well.  

Our Mission Statement

“We will provide the best and safest bariatric surgical care and every patient will be treated as we would like to be treated.”

In addition, it’s extremely important to our mission that we provide our patients with all of the relevant subjects, issues, and information surrounding lifestyle choices and perspectives essential to achieving positive outcomes following bariatric surgery. 

Our Vision

We envision a time in which obesity is no longer a public health epidemic. Our vision is a surgical practice in which every patient achieves permanent, successful personal weight management.