Ali Aminian Bariatric Surgeon MD

Ali Aminian, M.D. joined Cleveland Clinic's Department of General Surgery after three-years of advanced fellowship training in minimally invasive surgery, bariatric surgery, and diabetes surgery. He is Associate Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and is licensed by the State Medical Board of Ohio. His clinical interests include gastrointestinal surgery, advanced laparoscopic surgery, and surgery for severe obesity and diabetes.As an academic surgeon in the Section of Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery, Dr. Aminian has been involved in clinical and experimental research on the role of minimally invasive gastrointestinal procedures in management of obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. He has an outstanding record of peer-reviewed publications (>100) in high impact journals including New England Journal of Medicine, Diabetes Care, Annals of Surgery, and British Journal of Surgery. He was co-author of a landmark study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, known as the STAMPEDE study, a randomized clinical trial comparing medical and surgical treatment of diabetes. He was the recipient of the prestigious American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) Young Investigator Award in 2013. Prior to joining the Clinic, he served as Assistant Professor of Surgery at Tehran Medical University, Iran for 6 years.