Dr. Rizwan M Chaudhry MD

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Get to know Bariatric and General Surgeon Dr. Rizwan Chaudhry, who serves the Sugarland and Houston, Texas area at his private practice and several local hospitals. Dr. Chaudhry earned his medical degree at the Saba University School of Medicine. Then, he completed his General Surgery residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He continued his studies by completing a fellowship in Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Chaudhry has been board certified by the American Board of Surgery. Previously, Dr. Chaudhry served as the Medical Director of the Weight Loss Institute at the Bay Area Regional Medical Center. After a year into practice, he lead the hospital in earning accreditation for Comprehensive Center for Bariatric Surgery by the American College of Surgeons and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeons. In 2016, he was named the top bariatric surgeon in the Houston Bay Area by The Bay Area Citizen and became the first surgeon to perform the intragastric balloon procedure in the Houston Bay Area, which is a revolutionary non-surgical procedure for weight loss. Dr. Chaudhry also has a passion for advancing the medical sciences. He has published multiple surgery-related articles in peer-reviewed journals and has given multiple presentations at national meetings. Aside from his passion in treating weight-loss, Dr. Chaudhry performs a multitude of minimally-invasive general surgical procedures as well. He surgically treats GERD (gastro-esophageal reflux disease) and complex paraesophageal hernias with laparoscopic techniques. Weight loss surgery includes a variety of procedures performed on people who have obesity. Weight loss is achieved by reducing the size of the stomach with a gastric band or through removal of a portion of the stomach known as sleeve gastrectomy or biliopancreatic diversion or by resecting and re-routing the small intestine to a small stomach pouch, known as gastric bypass surgery. Long-term studies show the procedures cause significant long-term loss of weight, recovery from diabetes, improvement in cardiovascular risk factors, and a mortality reduction from 40% to 23%. To stay current in his field, Dr. Chaudhry maintains professional memberships in prestigious medical organizations. He offers his patients the latest in surgical techniques and procedures and ensures that all of his patients are treated with the best possible care.

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