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Shawn Marc Garber (born on December 20th, 1966) is a 52-year-old American renowned bariatric surgeon in the tri-state area. Dr. Garber is the only bariatric surgeon in Long Island who has performed more than 3500 laparoscopic gastric bypass procedures and 3500 Lap-Band procedures and over 750 laparoscopic sleeve gastrostomies. He helped develop the single incision Lap-Band and sleeve gastrectomy techniques. He continued on to teaching many other weight loss surgeons around the country this virtually scarless technique in which he helped develop.

Education

New York and completed his studies at 3 different undergraduate universities: Brandeis from September 1984- May 1985, New York University from September 1985- May 1986, and State University of New York from September 1986- May 1988. He continued onto New York Medical College from 1988 to 1992 and finished his fellowship at The George Washington University Medical Center from 1997 to 1998.

Career

Shawn is well known to be the director and founder of New York Bariatric Group, long island’s minimally invasive surgery center located in Roslyn Heights, New York. The New York Bariatric group provides surgical options such as laparoscopic banging, sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass for the treatment of morbid obesity, as well as non-surgical weight loss options such as a gastric balloon. The surgeons at New York Bariatric Group

He is the service line chief of bariatric surgery at Mercy Medical Center (Rockville Center, NY), Saint Francis Hospital (Roslyn, NY), and Hudson Valley Hospital Center (Cortlandt Manor, NY). Aside from his practice, he is the chairman of the board for Virtual Healthcare Partners Inc., New York, NY.

Shawn’s training started as a general surgery resident at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York. He continued on to be the chief resident and then did his minimally invasive surgery fellowship at The George Washington University Medical Center. He finished his training by taking a laparoscopic bariatric surgery course in 2000.

Awards

Dr. Garber has received countless awards so that his hard work doesn’t go unrecognized. In 2018 he won the on-time doctor award, compassionate doctor award, and patients’ choice award. Additionally, in the past he has been awarded long island’s top doctor award in 2008 and top 1500 doctors in New York in 2002.

Press

Shawn Garber has also had the honor to be featured on many TV shows, magazines, radio stations and more. In 2015 he was interviewed for an article in People Magazine entitled “A Hot New Weight Loss Procedure Helped this Woman Drop 70 lbs.—without surgery. Additionally, he was interviewed for a New York Times article entitled Laparoscopic obesity surgery. He has even been starred on Fox News in 2013, Dr. Oz Show in 2011, Castle Connelly from 2005-2008, Discovery Channel in 2005, ABC news, NY55, NBC news and Channel 12 News on the series entitled The obesity crisis in the United States on the rise.

References https://bariatric.stopobesityforlife.com/the-practice/the-team/surgeons/shawn-m-garber/