Ovie Appresai Bariatric Surgeon MD, FACS

Ovie Appresai, M.D., is a board-certified general surgeon who graduated from the University of Benin in Nigeria in 1995. He completed a surgical residency in Nigeria in 2005. That same year he moved to the United States and started a general surgical residency at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons at Harlem Hospital Center. He then completed a fellowship for Advanced Gastrointestinal Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery at the University of South Florida in Tampa in 2011. Dr. Appresai has been in practice since 2011 and has interests in foregut and bariatric surgery, hernias, thyroid and endocrine procedures, breast, general gastrointestinal and minimally invasive surgery. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.