Kamran Samakar, MD

Reported procedures

• General surgery Source ↗
• minimally invasive bariatric surgery Source ↗
• hernia repair Source ↗
• GERD Source ↗

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Reported credentials

• Surgery Source ↗

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Reported affiliations

• USC CARE MEDICAL GROUP INC Source ↗

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Selected publications

• Achieving physiologic distensibility targets frequently requires modification of standard cruroplasty during anti-reflux surgery. · 2026 Source ↗
• Early Reinitiation of Obesity Medication After Sleeve Gastrectomy in Youths. · 2026 Source ↗
• Toward an intergenerational model of metabolic and bariatric surgery: reframing the household as the unit of care. · 2026 Source ↗
• Should we continue to follow the swallow? Limited value of routine preoperative upper gastrointestinal (UGI) series in pediatric and adolescent metabolic and bariatric surgery patients. · 2026 Source ↗
• Safety Profile of Primary Intragastric Balloon Placement in Class III Obesity: An MBSAQIP Analysis of 4,555 Patients. · 2026 Source ↗
• Short-Term Safety and Healthcare Utilization Following Intragastric Balloon Placement in Patients With and Without Diabetes Mellitus: A Propensity-Matched Analysis. · 2026 Source ↗
• Family Perceptions of Pediatric Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in a Safety-Net Obesity Clinic. · 2026 Source ↗
• Bariatric surgery and semaglutide in a youth with juvenile Huntington disease and severe obesity: a case report. · 2025 Source ↗
• Beyond surgery: a multimodal framework for a pediatric metabolic and bariatric surgery program in a safety-net children's hospital. · 2026 Source ↗
• Impact of preoperative and postoperative anti-obesity medications on early postoperative body mass index reduction after sleeve gastrectomy in pediatrics. · 2026 Source ↗
• Perspectives of Patients Seeking Bariatric Surgery: The Impact of Early Patient-Provider Communication on Bariatric Surgery Utilization. · 2025 Source ↗
• Type 2 Diabetes in a 4-Year-Old With Obesity: Considerations for Use of Semaglutide and Bariatric Surgery in Children. · 2025 Source ↗
• Use of obesity medications in a young pediatric patient with optic nerve hypoplasia and severe early-onset obesity: A case report. · 2025 Source ↗
• A Comparative Analysis of the Accuracy and Readability of Popular Artificial Intelligence-Chat Bots for Inguinal Hernia Management. · 2025 Source ↗
• ASMBS literature review & clinical guidelines on prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Wernicke's encephalopathy and Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. · 2025 Source ↗
• Semaglutide and laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in an adolescent with congenital adrenal hyperplasia due to 21-hydroxylase: a case report. · 2025 Source ↗
• Early Reinitiation of Obesity Pharmacotherapy Post Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in Youth: A Retrospective Cohort Study. · 2025 Source ↗
• Trends and predictors of laparoscopic compared with open emergent inguinal hernia repair. · 2024 Source ↗
• Safety of redo sleeve gastrectomy as a primary revisional procedure. · 2024 Source ↗
• Trends in the mortality of intra-abdominal infections in adults over 25 years in the USA, 1999-2021. · 2024 Source ↗
• Large language models and bariatric surgery patient education: a comparative readability analysis of GPT-3.5, GPT-4, Bard, and online institutional resources. · 2024 Source ↗
• ChatGPT as a Source of Information for Bariatric Surgery Patients: a Comparative Analysis of Accuracy and Comprehensiveness Between GPT-4 and GPT-3.5. · 2024 Source ↗
• Perceptions and Expectations Regarding the Step 1 Score Change Among Surgical and Non-Surgical Program Directors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. · 2024 Source ↗
• Trends and outcomes of intraoperative esophagogastroduodenoscopy during laparoscopic Heller myotomy: a National Surgical Quality Improvement Program analysis. · 2024 Source ↗
• Towards Responsible AI in Patient Education: Ethical, Linguistic, and Regulatory Considerations. · 2023 Source ↗
• Large language models in bariatric surgery patient support: A transformative approach to patient education and engagement. · 2024 Source ↗
• Providers' Knowledge and Perceptions of Bariatric Surgery: a Systematic Review. · 2023 Source ↗
• Inclusive AI in Healthcare: Enhancing Bariatric Surgery Education for Diverse Patient Populations. · 2024 Source ↗
• Ensuring Ethical and Responsible Integration of AI Tools in Healthcare. · 2023 Source ↗
• Reply to "Assessing the Accuracy of Responses by the Language Model ChatGPT to Questions Regarding Bariatric Surgery: a Critical Appraisal". · 2023 Source ↗
• Assessing the Accuracy of Responses by the Language Model ChatGPT to Questions Regarding Bariatric Surgery. · 2023 Source ↗
• Special Delivery-Metabolic Bariatric Surgery as a Key Component of Maternal-Fetal Health Care. · 2023 Source ↗
• Patient and the Public's Perceptions of Bariatric Surgery: A Systematic Review. · 2023 Source ↗
• Evaluating the Bariatric Safety Net: Analysis of Socioeconomic Factors and Outcomes at a Bariatric Safety Net Program Compared to an Affiliated Private Center. · 2022 Source ↗
• Surgeon Assessment of a Novel Multi-Resolution Foveated Laparoscope. · 2022 Source ↗
• Lower Rates of Unplanned Conversion to Open in Robotic Approach to Esophagectomy for Cancer. · 2023 Source ↗
• Factors Associated With Bariatric Surgery Referral Patterns: A Systematic Review. · 2022 Source ↗
• Association of Postoperative Dieting, Exercise, Dietitian, and Surgeon Follow up With Bariatric Surgery Outcomes. · 2022 Source ↗
• Hernia-to-neck ratio is associated with emergent ventral hernia repair. · 2022 Source ↗
• Gastric electric stimulator versus gastrectomy for the treatment of medically refractory gastroparesis. · 2022 Source ↗
• History of abuse and bariatric surgery outcomes: a systematic review. · 2022 Source ↗
• Letter re: Elective Hernia Repair in Obese Patients Letter to the Editor: Response. · 2023 Source ↗
• Racial disparities in complications and mortality after bariatric surgery: A systematic review. · 2022 Source ↗
• Preoperative Weight Loss as a Predictor of Bariatric Surgery Postoperative Weight Loss and Complications. · 2022 Source ↗
• Impact of smoking on weight loss outcomes after bariatric surgery: a literature review. · 2021 Source ↗
• Impact of a Body Mass Index Threshold on Abdominal Wall Hernia Repair at a Safety-Net Hospital. · 2023 Source ↗
• Racial disparities in bariatric surgery postoperative weight loss and patient satisfaction. · 2022 Source ↗
• Racial disparities in bariatric surgery postoperative weight loss and co-morbidity resolution: a systematic review. · 2021 Source ↗
• Sleeve Gastrectomy as a Novel Procedure for Gastroparesis. · 2021 Source ↗
• The use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs after sleeve gastrectomy. · 2021 Source ↗
• Effects of smoking on bariatric surgery postoperative weight loss and patient satisfaction. · 2021 Source ↗
• Laparoscopy as a Diagnostic and Therapeutic Modality for Chronic Abdominal Pain of Unknown Etiology: A Literature Review. · 2020 Source ↗
• Safety and efficacy of robotic-assisted groin hernia repair. · 2021 Source ↗
• Removing the magnetic sphincter augmentation device: operative management and outcomes. · 2019 Source ↗
• Minimal versus obligatory dissection of the diaphragmatic hiatus during magnetic sphincter augmentation surgery. · 2019 Source ↗
• Regression of intestinal metaplasia following magnetic sphincter augmentation device placement. · 2019 Source ↗
• Routine esophageal manometry is not useful in patients with normal videoesophagram. · 2019 Source ↗
• Hiatal hernia recurrence following magnetic sphincter augmentation and posterior cruroplasty: intermediate-term outcomes. · 2018 Source ↗
• Efficacy of magnetic sphincter augmentation in patients with large hiatal hernias. · 2017 Source ↗
• Gastric cancer in the young: An advanced disease with poor prognostic features. · 2017 Source ↗
• Erratum to: The Effect of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy with Concomitant Hiatal Hernia Repair on Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease in the Morbidly Obese. · 2016 Source ↗
• Safety and efficacy of single-stage conversion of failed adjustable gastric band to laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: a case-control study. · 2016 Source ↗

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Professional identifier

NPI: 1720244098

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