Ian Soriano, MD FACS

Dr. Ian S. Soriano, MD, FACS is board-certified in general surgery and specializes in gastrointestinal and bariatric surgery with a focus on minimally invasive techniques, including robotic surgery. He is currently an Associate Professor of Surgery and Surgeon Champion for the ACS-NSQIP at the University of California-San Francisco. He is also the Director of Robotic Surgery for the UCSF Department of Surgery. Dr. Soriano completed a combined undergrad and medical school program at the University of the Philippines. He trained in general surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. After completing a fellowship in Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic in Florida, he joined Temple University as Assistant Professor of Surgery and subsequently appointed Associate Director of Bariatric Surgery. More recently, he was Chief of Gastrointestinal Surgery at Pennsylvania Hospital and Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the ASMBS, as well as a member of the Editorial Board of SOARD and JOGS. He is a member of numerous surgical societies and serves as an active committee member in both SAGES and ASMBS. He has written book chapters, authored papers, given lectures and trained other surgeons in bariatric and gastrointestinal surgery in both robotic and laparoscopic techniques.