Mitchell S. Roslin, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Mitchell S. Roslin, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Mitchell Roslin, MD, FACS, FASMBS, has dedicated his professional career to the treatment of morbid obesity. He is considered one of the best bariatric surgeons in New York.

Dr. Mitchell Roslin has been performing weight loss surgery in New York since 1994 and laparoscopic obesity surgery since 2000. He was part of the LAP-BAND® System clinical trial and has expertise in duodenal switch, revisional bariatric surgery and SIPS surgery.

Dr. Roslin is frequently asked by private bariatric practices all over the country to teach established surgeons new techniques and procedures. Recently, Dr. Roslin has served as invited faculty and given talks in Israel, Mexico, and Europe.

Additionally, Dr. Roslin has been an innovator in the search for new and better treatments. He holds several patents in the emerging field of Pacing Technology for the treatment of obesity. Most recently he has designed a method for the endoscopic treatment of relapse following gastric bypass surgery.

Dr. Mitchell Roslin was born in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He attended medical school at New York University and received his surgical training at Maimonides Medical Center in New York City.

In 1996, Dr. Roslin became the Director of Bariatric Surgery at the Maimonides Medical Center. In 2000, he was appointed the Chief of Obesity Surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City and has supervised its growth into one of the most prestigious programs in the United States. Dr. Mitchell Roslin is also the President of Manhattan Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery PC.

Dr. Roslin is a faculty member at the Minimally Invasive Surgical Symposium, The Consensus Conference on Sleeve Gastrectomy. He is the editor of the VideoTextBook of Bariatric Surgery, serves as the major teaching proctor for sleeve gastrectomy and duodenal switch, and is the course director for symposiums on revisional bariatric surgery.

Dr. Mitchell Roslin has received numerous awards during his career. He has been voted one of the outstanding doctors in New York, by both Castle and Connolly and New York Magazine. Dr. Roslin recently has been selected as one of the best minimally invasive surgeons in New York. He is the founding president of the NYS-ASMBS and co chair of the access committee of ASMBS.

Dr. Roslin has been an active advocate for breaking through insurance barriers to bariatric surgery.

Podcast: What Everyone Needs to Know about Obesity

Podcast: Obesity and Aging

Dr. Roslin in the News

Why single anastomosis duodenal switch makes sense

Non-surgical stomach-shrinking procedure seems to work long-term

Don’t Put Off Weight-Loss Surgery Till You’re Heavier

Removing Barriers to Bariatric Surgery and the Role of Surgical Societies

Q&A Topics by Dr. Roslin

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Lenox Hill Bariatric Surgery Program

The Lenox Hill Hospital/Lenox Hill Bariatric Surgery Program specializes in minimally invasive weight loss surgery options for obese and morbidly obese weight loss patients.

Represented by New York weight loss surgeons Dr. Mitchell Roslin and Dr. Filippo Filicori, Lenox Hill specializes in gastric Sleeve, gastric bypass surgery (laparoscopic and open), duodenal switch and the LAP-BAND® Adjustable Gastric Banding Systemal along with revisional surgery.

Lenox Hill weight loss in New York offers a surgical support team that takes a comprehensive approach to weight loss surgery. The team includes full pre-operative education, nutritional counseling, exercise guidance, and individual and group counseling opportunities.