Andrew Averbach, MD FACS FASMBS
About the Provider
Graduated from N.Pirogov State Medical School, Moscow, RF in 1979. Practiced surgical oncology at Moscow Hertzen Cancer research Institute till 1992, when became a Clinical Research Fellow at the Cancer Institute at the Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, 1992-1997.
Completed General Surgery Residency at the Saint Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, MD.
From 1992 till 2014 was in private practice focused on Bariatric & advanced laparoscopic surgery.
From 2014 till present - Staff surgeons at the Saint Agnes Hospital.
Director of Bariatric & Laparoscopic surgery from 2008 till present.
Practice is exclusively devoted to primary and revisional bariatric surgery with more than 5,000 procedures performed.
Ascension/Saint Agnes Bariatric Surgery service is continuosly credentialed since 2006 initially as Center of Excellence by SRC and from 2013 till present as Comprehensive Bariatric Surgery program by ACS/ASMBS MBSAQIP.