Meet the Doctors
Peter F. Crookes, MD
Dr. Peter Crookes graduated from the School of Medicine in Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and did postgraduate surgical training in Belfast and in Melbourne, Australia before coming to do a fellowship in esophageal and gastric diseases at University of Southern California in 1990. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Surgery at the USC Keck School of Medicine since 1994 and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons of England, as well as a member of several major surgical societies including the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT), American Society of Bariatric Surgeons (ASBS) and the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES). He has a particular interest in the surgical management of Gastroesophageal Reflux disease, Morbid Obesity and Gastric Cancer.
Namir Katkhouda, MD
Dr. Namir Katkhouda is a world authority in laparoscopic surgery, having pioneered the first laparoscopic vagotomy for the treatment of gastro duodenal ulcer disease. This approach served as a template for the advent of laparoscopic management of gastroesophageal reflux disease. He is an innovator in the laparoscopic approach to advanced procedures, including liver surgery, aortic surgery, gastric resections, and hernia repair. His current research involves the role of laparoscopy in cancer, and the use of robotics and telesurgery for teaching new laparoscopic techniques. He has presented over 250 scientific papers and book chapters and trained more than 800 surgeons on laparoscopic techniques worldwide.
He is an active partner of the USC Bariatric Surgery Program and in this capacity, offers the patients all laparoscopic approaches for weight loss surgery including hand sawn laparoscopic Roux en Y Gastric Bypass and the Lap Band.
Dr. Katkhouda came to the University of Southern California from France in 1993, and is currently Professor of Surgery and Chief of the Minimally Invasive Surgery Program. He is the Director of Laparoscopic Surgery at USC University Hospital. He serves on several committees for the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic surgeons, is a member of the Southwestern Surgical Congress, the Western Surgical Association, the European and French Society of Endoscopic Surgery, and is an honorary member of the Mexican and Asian Society of Laparoscopic Surgery. He is member of the Editorial board of several peer reviewed surgical journals. He is a Fellow of the American and French College of Surgeons.
Dr. Katkhouda completed his medical degree at the University of Montpellier, France. He completed his residency and fellowship in 1984 at the University of Nice, School of Medicine in France, where he was later appointed Vice Chairman and director of Surgical Endoscopy in the Department of surgery.
Dr. Katkhouda received his board certification in surgery in 1987.
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