Nicole Basa, MD FACS

Dr. Basa is a board-certified general surgeon by the American Board of Surgery. She is an assistant clinical profesor at Texas A&M in the Department of Surgery. She completed her general surgery training at the University of Southern California (USC) where she graduated at the top of her class for her outstanding patient care and excellent surgical skills. Dr. Basa then completed a fellowship in Minimally Invasive and Bariatric surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she also served as a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Surgery. Her practice includes advanced laparoscopic and robotic procedures such as hernia repairs, colon resections and robotic surgeries for morbid obesity which include the roux-en-y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy. Due to her background in the sciences with a bachelors degree in molecular and cellular biology with an emphasis in genetics from the University of California at Berkeley, she has conducted research at both the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland and UCLA Cure: DigestiveDiseasesResearchCenter, with a special interest in the control of appetite. She has presented her work on ghrelin (an appetite hormone) at national meetings throughout the country. In practice Dr. Basa has presented at national conferences on bariatric surgery to include the Cardiometabolic Summit and the Texas Academy for Family Physicians. Dr. Basa also enjoys teaching and has received numerous teaching awards from medical students at both USC and UCLA. Dr. Basa is a member of the following organizations: AmericanCollege of Surgeons, American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, American Medical Association, and Texas Medical Association.