Dr. Anita P. Courcoulas

Anita P. Courcoulas, MD, MPH, FACS, is a minimally invasive general surgeon certified in surgery by the American Board of Surgery. She is a professor of surgery and chief of the Division of Minimally Invasive Bariatric and General Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Courcoulas attended Brown University, where she graduated with honors and completed her medical degree at Boston University School of Medicine, also with honors. She completed her general surgery internship and residency, pediatric surgery post-graduate research fellowship, and minimally invasive surgery post-graduate fellowship training all at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. In addition, she obtained a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health during her surgical training program. Dr. Courcoulas specializes in minimal access general surgery, abdominal surgery during pregnancy, and bariatric and metabolic surgery. Her research focuses on surgical outcomes, clinical trials, and emerging technologies in bariatric surgery. Dr. Courcoulas is active within many national surgical and obesity organizations, serves on the editorial boards of leading scientific journals, and has published more than 230 peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters. View Dr. Courcoulas' full list of publications from PubMed.

Dr. Courcoulas is highly rated in 5 conditions, according to our data. Her top areas of expertise are Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes (T2D), Obesity in Children, Gastric Bypass, and Sleeve Gastrectomy.

Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 173 peer reviewed articles and participating in 1 clinical trial. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.