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Dr. Stanley Rogers is Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery in Residence, Surgical Director of the Bariatric Surgery Program and Chief of Minimally Invasive Surgery in the Division of General Surgery. He received a B.A. in Zoology and Physiology from the University of Wyoming and his M.D. from the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Rogers did his surgical training, including his residency, and a fellowship in laparoscopic surgery, surgical sonography and GI endoscopy at UCSF. His clinical and research interests are in of GI and Bariatric Surgery. Dr. Rogers is also Co-Director Bariatric Surgery Center at UCSF Medical Center, Co-Director, Video-endoscopic Surgery at San Francisco General Hospital, and a member of the clinical team at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Highly respected by his peers, Dr. Rogers was named to the list of U.S. News "America's Top Doctors," a distinction reserved for the top 1% of physicians in the nation for a given specialty.
In its most recent survey, U.S. News in collaboration with Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. listed twenty-five (25) surgeons in the UCSF Department of Surgery, nearly one-third (1/3) of the clinical faculty, on the list of U.S. News "Top Doctors". The list, compiled from the opinion of colleagues, denotes the top 10% of physicians within a region practicing a given specialty. Fifteen of the 25 department surgeons were also named by their peers to the list of America's Top Doctors (ATD), a distinction reserved for the top 1% of physicians in the nation for that specialty. The listings are published online at U.S. News. The group rankings are intended to guide patients in selecting a doctor and physicians in making specialty referrals.
UCSF has been accredited by the American
College of Surgeons (ACS) as a Level 1
Accredited Bariatric Center (ACS BSCN). The American College of
Surgeons Bariatric Surgery Center Network Accreditation Program
(ACS BSCN) accredits facilities in the United States that have
undergone an independent, voluntary and rigorous peer evaluation in
accordance with nationally recognized bariatric surgical
standards. This adds to the prestige of the program which
previously also earned the Blue Distinction for Bariatric
Surgery from Blue Shield of California and was
designated a Blue Cross "Center of Expertise
Hospital for bariatric
surgery.
Stanley Rogers, MD, FACS, Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery and Co-Director of the UCSF Bariatric Surgery Center, and John Cello, MD, Professor of Medicine and Surgery, and Medical Director of Bariatric Surgery Center, recently led a multidisciplinary team in performing the first two of thirty procedures scheduled at the UCSF Medical Center. The investigational procedure, transoral gastroplasty, or "TOGA" for short, is being tested in a clinical trial. UCSF is one of nine U.S. trial sites. Drs. Rogers and Cello are principal investigators on the study.