Aziz Benbrahim, MD FASMBS

Aziz Benbrahim, MD, FACS, FASMBS., joined MidState Medical Center as a General Surgeon in 2002 and was named the Medical Director of the hospital’s Weight Management Program in 2004.
From 2008 to 2009, he served as the Chairman of General Surgery section followed by being the Director of the Division of Surgery and the Chairman of the Perioperative Committee until January 2014. He serves as the President of Medical Staff at the same institution since 2019. He is a Professor of Surgery at the Frank H. Netter School of Medicine, Quinnipiac University.
Dr. Benbrahim is Board Certified in General Surgery with special expertise in Minimally Invasive Surgery. He specializes in Robotic and Bariatric Surgery and also performs comprehensive general surgery. A graduate of Hassan II University School of Medicine in Casablanca, Morocco,. He began his surgical training in France and then completed a 6-year residency at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Benbrahim spent three years as a Research Fellow in the Department of Vascular Surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. He served as the president of the CTASMBS. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a Fellow of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, and an active member of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, The New England Surgical Society, and the Connecticut State Medical Society.