Eric D Edwards, MD Email Eric Edwards
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- Position
- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR | Metabolic, Endocrine and Minimally Invasive Surgery
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- Specialties
- Surgery
- Bariatric Surgery
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- Language
- English
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- Hospital Affiliations
- Mount Sinai Queens
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
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- Phone
- Mount Sinai Doctors Faculty Practice 212-824-2350 212-824-2350
- Mount Sinai Doctors 212-824-2350 212-824-2350
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He received his medical degree from UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School. He then completed a residency in surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center during which time he became interested in helping patients with the metabolic complications of obesity. He went on to complete a fellowship in minimally invasive surgery and bariatric surgery at Lutheran Medical Center/SUNY Health Science Center, Brooklyn.
Dr. Edwards performs advanced minimally invasive surgery in which procedures are performed through small incisions with the aid of a camera and specialized instruments. This allows a patient to have a shorter recovery period and less discomfort than that experienced with conventional surgery.
He performs both laparoscopic and conventional open surgical procedures including gallbladder removal, hernia repair, appendectomy, and colon and rectal surgery. His clinical focus is on bariatric surgery which treats patients with obesity through a variety of procedures such as gastric banding, sleeve gastrectomy, gastric bypass surgery and biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch. Dr. Edwards finds treating patients with bariatric surgery very rewarding as he sees the transformative effect that it has on his patients’ health and lives. By helping patients achieve significant weight loss, Dr. Edwards enables them to improve the metabolic complications of obesity including diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He is currently involved in research evaluating the outcomes of patients who have undergone bariatric surgery.
Dr. Edwards has published in peer reviewed journals on the subjects of bariatric surgery, hernia repair, and colon surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the American Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery and the Society of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons.
Certification
American Board of Surgery
Clinical Focus
- Abdominal Hernia
- Abdominal Surgery
- Achalasia
- Adrenal Surgery
- Adrenalectomy
- Antireflux Surgery
- Appendectomy-Laparoscopic Surgery
- Appendicitis
- Bariatric Surgery
- Biopsy
- Cholecystectomy
- Colectomy
- Colon Cancer
- Colorectal Resection
- Colorectal Surgery
- Diverticulitis
- Gastrectomy
- Gastric Bypass Consultation
- Hernia Repair
- Hiatal Hernia
- Laparoscopic Hernia Repair
- Laparoscopic Intestinal Surgery
- Laparoscopy
- Mechanical Bowel Obstruction
- Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Overweight/Obesity
- Paraesophageal Hernia
- Peptic Ulcer
- Pheochromocytoma
- Sleeve Gastrectomy
- Small Bowel Obstruction
- Spleen Surgery
- Splenectomy
- Stomach Cancer
- Surgery Second Opinion
- Weight Loss Consultation
- Wound Dehiscence
Education
MD, Univ of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ
Residency, Surgery
New York Presbyterian - Weill Cornell Medical Center
Fellowship, Minimal Invasive - Bariatic Surgery
Lutheran Medical Center/NYU
Language
English
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- Intuitive Surgical, Inc.
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