UC Health is excited to welcome Brad Watkins, MD and announce the creation of the UC Health Weight Loss Center. The UC Health Weight Loss Center will be based in West Chester and will be led by Dr. Watkins. "This is an exciting opportunity for me, my staff and my patients. UC Health offers top notch physicians, world class research and is training the physicians of tomorrow every day," said Dr. Watkins. "My staff and I can apply the knowledge and skills we've acquired over the last five years while running the Cincinnati Weight Loss Center and combine it with the resources of UC Health to make the UC Health Weight Loss Center the region's best."
Work has already begun and will continue over the next few months in transitioning the Cincinnati Weight Loss Center into the UC Health family. This new partnership only enhances the services and patient care that already existed at the Cincinnati Weight Loss Center.
We thank you for your patience during this transition.
NOW INTRODUCING A NEW EXPERIMENTAL AND INVESTIGATIONAL WEIGHT LOSS SURGERY CALLED BANDED GASTRIC PLICATION SURGERY TO THE CINCINNATI AREA. DR. WATKINS IS THE FIRST SURGEON IN THE AREA TO PERFORM BANDED PLICATION, WHICH COMBINES TWO VERY POWERFUL WEIGHT LOSS TOOLS.
Please call the office or attend a Free Seminar to learn more about this new EXPERIMENTAL AND INVESTIGATIONAL procedure.
Now accepting most insurance plans. Please call the office for details.
Welcome to UC Health Weight Loss Center - experts in Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band Surgery (LAP-BAND, REALIZE Band)
Thank you for visiting UC Health Weight Loss Center. Our mission is to maximize your weight loss success using the latest research and technology and providing this in a supportive environment. Since we are all weight loss patients ourselves we are passionate about helping you succeed.
What we offer
- Surgical Weight Loss
- LAP-BAND® (Allergan)
- REALIZE Band (Ethicon Endosurgery)
- New Weight Loss Procedure-Gastric Plication Surgery (GPS)
Learn More - Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy
- Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass
- SILS (Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery)
- Band over bypass for weight regain after gastric bypass
- ROSE incisionless surgery for weight regain after gastric bypass
- Endoscopic surgery
- Repair/revision of band prolapse, pouch dilation, "slip" and others
- General surgery
- Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (EGD "stomach scope", colonoscopy)
- Laparoscopic hiatal hernia repair
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (removal of gallbladder)
- Laparoscopic hernia repair
Dr. Brad Watkins
Dr. Brad Watkins is one of the few surgeons in the United States who:
- Has completed well over 1,000 gastric band procedures
- Has experience with nearly 5,000 procedures in his gastric band clinics
- FDA proctoring surgeon for both band companies (Allergan, Ethicon)
- Published five academic papers on gastric banding in the surgical literature
- Performs band-over-bypass procedure
- Performs the new incisionless ROSE procedure
- Teaches other surgeons on primary gastric banding
- Teaches other surgeons on band-over-bypass
- Teaches gastric band courses
- Teaches ROSE courses
- Consultant for Allergan Company, LAP-BAND®
- Consultant for Ethicon Company, REALIZE ™
- Consultant for USGI Company, ROSE procedure
- Completed many advanced bariatric courses and bariatric CME programs
- Involved in multiple clinical trials for adult and adolescent obesity
- Nationally recognized on the "Today Show"
- Member American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
- Member Council for Advances in Bariatrics
7798 University Court, Suite E, West Chester, OH, 45069
Phone: 513-939-BAND
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