The MGH Digestive Healthcare Center's Weight Center offers a continuum of services, including bariatric surgery, for patients to successfully manage their weight. Our multidisciplinary team focuses on family-based therapy.

Please visit our website at http://www.weightcenter.org for more detailed information.

• Lee Kaplan, MD, Ph.D.
  Medical Director

OVERVIEW

The MGH Weight Center offers expert consultation and treatment for both adults and children diagnosed as overweight or obese. We view obesity as a complex disease, with multiple causes and clinical manifestations, and we direct our assessment toward determining the specific causes and complications and effective treatment of obesity in each of our patients. A multidisciplinary specialty approach to weight disorders allows us to proactively address the many comorbid conditions associated with obesity, including diabetes, heart disease, respiratory disorders, liver disease, arthritis, certain cancers and depression.

The MGH Weight Center physicians and staff offer a complete range of services to overweight patients. We have an active and diverse clinical research program focused on genetic and psychosocial basis of weight disorders, in which we strongly encourage our patients to participate.

PATIENT- AND FAMILY-CENTERED CARE

• Pediatric and adult programs that involve family members
• Nutrition, diet and exercise counseling
• Lifestyle modification behavioral counseling
• Education programs

COLLABORATIVE MEDICAL MANAGEMENT

• Phramacological interventions
• Complementary therapies
• Active clinical research programs

COMPREHENSIVE SURGICAL PROGRAM

• Evaluation and assessment of surgical and non-surgical options
• Roux-en-Y gastric bypass
• Vertically banded gastroplasty
• Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass

TO REFER A PATIENT

To refer a patient, please call (617) 726-4400 or contact any of the staff specialists by telefone, fax or email.

TO SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT

Please call the MGH Weight Center at (617) 726-4400. We can also be reached by e-mail at weightcenter@partners.org.