Peter F. Crookes, M.D., associate professor of Surgery, is the director of the USC Bariatric Program at USC University hospital, and associate chief of the foregut service at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center. He also has a special interest in medical and surgical education and is the recipient of numerous awards from the department and the Keck School of Medicine for his contributions in that area. He is the director of the Student Clerkship for the Keck School of Medicine. His research interests include a wide variety of problems related to morbid obesity and diseases of the esophagus and stomach. He has published extensively on the metabolic changes associated with different types of bariatric surgery, as well as the physiology of GERD and achalasia. He also has a lively interest in the history of surgery and frequently lectures and writes on historical topics. His CV includes over 80 peer-review publications in addition to 30 chapters and numerous invited lectures and presentations in these areas.
Dr. Crookes received his medical degree from Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he also completed a specialized qualification in pathology. During his internship and residency at Royal Victoria Hospital, Dr. Crookes gained extensive exposure to surgery, training from 1978 to 1989 before traveling to Melbourne, Australia, where he was a research fellow in the Department of Surgery at St. Vincent's Hospital. In 1990, Dr. Crookes traveled to Creighton University in Omaha to serve as a research fellow with Tom R. DeMeester, M.D. He completed his fellowship at USC, and joined the faculty in 1994.
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