Ramzi Alami is a General Surgeon in Prince Frederick, Maryland. Dr. Alami is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. His top areas of expertise are Hiatal Hernia, Diaphragmatic Hernia, Obesity, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Gastrectomy. Dr. Alami is currently accepting new patients.

Mark Kligman is a Bariatric Medicine provider in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Kligman is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. His top areas of expertise are Obesity, Obesity in Children, Short Bowel Syndrome, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Gastrectomy.

Christopher You is a General Surgeon in Rosedale, Maryland. Dr. You is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. His top areas of expertise are Hernia, Obesity, Obesity in Children, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Gastrectomy. Dr. You is currently accepting new patients.

Alejandro Gandsas is a General Surgeon in Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Gandsas is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. His top areas of expertise are Obesity, Obesity in Children, Hiatal Hernia, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Gastrectomy. Dr. Gandsas is currently accepting new patients.

Courtney Doyle is a General Surgeon in Lanham, Maryland. Dr. Doyle is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. Her top areas of expertise are Obesity, Obesity in Children, Hernia, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Gastrectomy. Dr. Doyle is currently accepting new patients.

Gina Adrales, M.D., M.P.H., joins the Johns Hopkins Department of Surgery as Director of the Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Director of the Minimally Invasive Surgery Training and Innovation Center, and Co-Director of the Johns Hopkins Bariatric Surgery Fellowship. Her areas of clinical expertise include gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), gallbladder disease, achalasia, splenectomy (spleen removal), benign gastric and intestinal surgery, bariatric surgery, and open and laparoscopic hernia repair (inguinal, ventral, incisional, umbilical, hiatal, paraesophageal). Dr. Adrales has been named an associate member of the American College of Surgeons' Academy of Master Surgeon Educators. Awardees are recognized for having devoted their careers to surgical education and are considered premier leaders in their respective fields. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins, Dr. Adrales was on faculty at Dartmouth where she directed the Surgery Clerkship, the Hernia Surgery Center, and the Bariatric Surgery Program. During her tenure at Dartmouth, she earned her Masters of Public Health at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. She received her undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary and her medical degree from the University of Virginia. She completed her residency at the Carolinas Medical Center and a research and clinical fellowship in minimally invasive surgery at the University of Kentucky before her first faculty appointment at the Medical College of Georgia. A national leader in hernia surgery, Dr. Adrales serves on the Executive Council of the Americas Hernia Society and previously served on the Executive Council of the Americas Hernia Society Quality Collaborative to improve the safety and quality of hernia surgery. She is actively involved in a number of committees for the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons including various roles in surgical education, the development of the Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery and an innovative interactive hernia surgery education module. Dr. Adrales’ research interests include health services research, clinical outcomes and quality improvement in minimally invasive foregut surgery, bariatric and metabolic surgery, and abdominal wall reconstruction. She has presented her work regionally, nationally, and internationally. Dr. Adrales is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. Her top areas of expertise are Hernia, Hiatal Hernia, Gastroparesis, Gastrectomy, and Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Timothee Friesen is a General Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Friesen is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. His top areas of expertise are Obesity, Obesity in Children, Food Allergy, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Gastrectomy. Dr. Friesen is currently accepting new patients.

Alain Abdo is a General Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Abdo has been practicing medicine for over 18 years and is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. His top areas of expertise are Ogilvie Syndrome, Hernia, Choledocholithiasis, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Gastrectomy. Dr. Abdo is currently accepting new patients.

Shauna Costinett is a General Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Costinett is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. Her top areas of expertise are Obesity, Hernia, Ogilvie Syndrome, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Gastrectomy. Dr. Costinett is currently accepting new patients.

Stephen Mckenna is a General Surgeon in Frederick, Maryland. Dr. Mckenna has been practicing medicine for over 44 years and is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. His top areas of expertise are Hernia, Obesity, Cholecystitis, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Gastrectomy. Dr. Mckenna is currently accepting new patients.

Christina Li is a Bariatric Medicine provider in Randallstown, Maryland. Dr. Li is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. Her top areas of expertise are Obesity, Hernia, Hiatal Hernia, Gastric Bypass, and Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Marc Rickford is a Bariatric Medicine provider in Oxon Hill, Maryland. Dr. Rickford is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. His top areas of expertise are Obesity, Obesity in Children, Hernia, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Gastrectomy.

Un Chin is a General Surgeon in Salisbury, Maryland. Dr. Chin is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. His top areas of expertise are Hernia, Gallbladder Disease, Familial Colorectal Cancer, Small Bowel Resection, and Gastrectomy. Dr. Chin is currently accepting new patients.

Gastroenterologist Mouen Khashab specializes in therapeutic endoscopy, and he oversees this group of practitioners across the Johns Hopkins enterprise. Nationally and internationally known in the field of interventional endoscopy, Dr. Khashab has contributed immensely to the field’s advancement as a minimally invasive means to treat gastrointestinal and pancreaticobiliary disorders. Dr. Khashab earned his medical degree from the American University of Beirut Faculty of Medicine, and subsequently completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in gastroenterology at Indiana University. He then completed a two-year fellowship at The Johns Hopkins Hospital before joining the faculty in 2011. A busy researcher, Dr. Khashab has published more than 600 papers in peer-reviewed journals. In 2013, he described the procedure called gastric peroral endoscopic myotomy (known as G-POEM) and was able to disseminate and teach it all over the world. Other procedures that he expanded include peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM), peroral endoscopic myotomy with fundoplication (POEM-F), Zenker’s peroral endoscopic myotomy (Z-POEM) and full thickness resection. In 2022, he received the Master Endoscopist Award from the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) for his numerous contributions to the field. His procedural expertise includes endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), interventional EUS, submucosal endoscopy, POEM/achalasia, endoscopic mucosal resection, endoscopic submucosal dissection, luminal stenting, large polyp resection and Barrett’s therapy, among others. Dr. Khashab is involved with multiple gastrointestinal societies and has served on many committees, including the ASGE Standards of Practice Committee, which is in charge of formulating guidelines for the practice of endoscopy. He has also served as an associate editor for the journal Endoscopy, a premier journal in the field. Khashab is a highly sought-after speaker at national and international conferences, and he has participated in multiple live endoscopy conferences. Outside of academic medicine, Dr. Khashab is an entrepreneur. His major interest is in new technology and medical devices, and his goal is to disrupt the field by introducing technology that makes endoscopic procedures safer, easier, efficient and more scalable. Dr. Khashab is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. His top areas of expertise are Achalasia, Pancreatic Pseudocyst, Bile Duct Obstruction, Endoscopy, and Gastric Bypass.

Alae Zarif is a General Surgeon in Berlin, Maryland. Dr. Zarif is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. His top areas of expertise are Hernia, Gallbladder Disease, Gallstones, Hernia Surgery, and Ileostomy. Dr. Zarif is currently accepting new patients.

Jeanne Clark is a Radiologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Clark is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. Her top areas of expertise are Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH), Menopause, Gastric Bypass, and Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Mohammad Jamal is a General Surgeon in Hagerstown, Maryland. Dr. Jamal is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. His top areas of expertise are Malnutrition, Hernia, Gallstones, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Gastrectomy.

Alexander Aurora is a Bariatric Medicine provider in Bel Air, Maryland. Dr. Aurora is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. His top areas of expertise are Hernia, Ogilvie Syndrome, Gallbladder Disease, Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Endoscopy.

Andrew Averbach is a General Surgeon in Catonsville, Maryland. Dr. Averbach is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. His top areas of expertise are Obesity, Obesity in Children, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), Sleeve Gastrectomy, and Vagotomy.

Brion Mccutcheon is a General Surgeon in Salisbury, Maryland. Dr. Mccutcheon is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Sleeve Gastrectomy. His top areas of expertise are Hernia, Umbilical Hernia, Hiatal Hernia, Hernia Surgery, and Sleeve Gastrectomy. Dr. Mccutcheon is currently accepting new patients.