Saber Ghiassi, MD

Reported procedures

• Dr. Saber Ghiassi performs several bariatric procedures to help patients achieve sustainable weight loss and improve obesity-related health conditions. His bariatric services include sleeve gastrectomy Source ↗
• adjustable gastric banding Source ↗
• and comprehensive bariatric surgery. He develops personalized treatment plans to support long-term weight management and better overall health. Source ↗
• Sleeve gastrectomy Source ↗
• Gastric bypass Source ↗
• Revisional bariatric surgery Source ↗
• Gastric band procedures Source ↗
• Robotic surgery Source ↗
• Minimally invasive surgery Source ↗
• Bariatric surgery Source ↗

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Reported credentials

• American Board of Surgery Source ↗
• Board Certified in General Surgery Source ↗
• Surgery Source ↗

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Reported affiliations

• Fresno Heart and Surgical Hospital and serves patients in Fairfield, Connecticut Source ↗
• YALE UNIVERSITY Source ↗
• Bariatric & Minimally Invasive Surgery Source ↗
• Center for Weight Management Source ↗
• Center for Weight Management - Bariatric Surgery Source ↗
• Surgery Source ↗
• Yale Medicine Source ↗
• Yale New Haven Health System Source ↗

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Selected publications

• Real-world Physical Activity and Sedentary Time Trends in Patients Undergoing Obesity Treatment: Insights From the All of Us Research Program. · 2026 Source ↗
• Comments on: prevalence of dysphagia after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: a national propensity score study. · 2025 Source ↗
• Metabolic and bariatric surgery outcomes in patients with gastroparesis: a retrospective analysis of the 2016 to 2022 Nationwide Readmissions Database. · 2025 Source ↗
• Factors Associated with Preoperative Attrition from a Large, Racially and Ethnically Representative Bariatric Program in the USA: A Single-Center Retrospective, Cohort Study. · 2025 Source ↗
• Comments on: Bariatric surgery targeting opioid prescribing: a national model for effectively reducing opioid use after bariatric surgery. · 2025 Source ↗
• Ventral hernia repair with permanent mesh for non-Hispanic black versus white patients: access and post-operative outcomes in the era of robotic surgery. · 2025 Source ↗
• Current State of Endoscopic Bariatric Therapies. · 2025 Source ↗
• Weight Nadir and Long-Term Weight Outcomes After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in a Diverse Cohort of Adolescents and Young Adults. · 2024 Source ↗
• The Degree of Preoperative Hypoalbuminemia Is Associated with Risk of Postoperative Complications in Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Patients. · 2024 Source ↗
• Collateral Benefit of Systematic Improvement in Bariatric Surgery Outcomes Following a Single Quality Improvement Project for Bleeding. · 2024 Source ↗
• Outcomes of SADI and OAGB Compared to RYGB from the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Quality Improvement Program: The North American Experience. · 2024 Source ↗
• American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery position statement on one-anastomosis gastric bypass. · 2024 Source ↗
• Role of the exercise professional in metabolic and bariatric surgery. · 2024 Source ↗
• American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery literature review on the effect of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass limb lengths on outcomes. · 2023 Source ↗
• Comment on: The impact of routine division of the greater omentum on small bowel obstruction after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. · 2023 Source ↗
• Correlating actual one-year weight loss with predicted weight loss by the MBSAQIP: bariatric surgical risk/benefit calculator. · 2021 Source ↗
• ASMBS position statement on the relationship between obesity and cancer, and the role of bariatric surgery: risk, timing of treatment, effects on disease biology, and qualification for surgery. · 2020 Source ↗
• Comments on: Should bariatric surgery be offered to prisoners? · 2020 Source ↗
• Safety and Efficacy of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery. · 2020 Source ↗
• Mesenteric Amyloidosis: Radiologic Imaging with Pathologic Correlation. · 2020 Source ↗
• Postoperative Opioid Prescribing Practices and Evidence-Based Guidelines in Bariatric Surgery. · 2019 Source ↗
• Intraoperative Blood Pressure Lability Is Associated with Postoperative Hemorrhage after Uncomplicated Bariatric Surgery. · 2019 Source ↗
• Reversal of Roux en Y gastric bypass: largest single institution experience. · 2019 Source ↗
• Comment on: Operative time as a marker of quality in bariatric surgery. · 2019 Source ↗
• Comment on: Systematic review and retrospective validation demonstrate prediction models can predict weight loss after bariatric surgery. · 2017 Source ↗
• American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery updated position statement on sleeve gastrectomy as a bariatric procedure. · 2017 Source ↗
• Conversion of standard Roux-en-Y gastric bypass to distal bypass for weight loss failure and metabolic syndrome: 3-year follow-up and evolution of technique to reduce nutritional complications. · 2018 Source ↗
• Impact of preoperative wait time due to insurance-mandated medically supervised diets on weight loss after sleeve gastrectomy. Are patients losing momentum? · 2017 Source ↗
• ASMBS Position Statement on Postprandial Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycemia after Bariatric Surgery. · 2017 Source ↗

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Professional identifier

NPI: 1487812921

Insurance reported

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