Do You Know YOUR Surgeon?

My surgeon is Dr. Wellborn. He is a life long Arkansan. He grew up in Little Rock where he attended Catholic High School for Boys. After college in Virginia, he returned to UAMS for Medical School where he was a Barton Research Scholar, The Lange Book Award Winner, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society member and winner of the E. Forest Ellis Award for Outstanding Surgical Student. He completed a five-year General Surgical Residency at UAMS, whi*****luded training in Bariatric Surgery. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Surgery. He is also a member of the Pulaski County and Arkansas Medical Society, and a member of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, in which he is one of two Arkansas physicians serving as an ASBS committee member on a national level. He is a Clinical Professor at UAMS and has UAMS residents working with him year round. Dr. Wellborn entered practice in 1984 and has been performing Bariatric Surgery for the past 21 years. Each year his Bariatric practice has grown to the point that Bariatric Surgery is now 85% of his practice. He has performed one thousand Bariatric procedures, and has a particular interest in Laparoscopic Bariatric surgery. In April 2001 he was among the first 50 surgeons in the United States to be trained in the LAP-BAND® Adjustable Gastric Banding System, and since August 2001, he has performed more than 300 Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding procedures. He is considering offering Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass in the future. Dr. Wellborn has been married for 21 years to his wife Suzan Wellborn, who is an RN, a personal trainer and his office manager. They have five children ages from age 16 to 28. Dr. Wellborn loves teaching surgery and medicine to his residents, watching his sons play football, reading historical novels, duck hunting, and sailing with his family..........Just some of the reasons I chose him to do my RNY surgery. This is one man who TRULY cares about his patients.....How does YOUR surgeon compare??? Cathi

Jodi, Did you know Baker & Wellborn share the same office? LOL