Albert Wetter San Francisco, California, USA M.D. Dr. Albert Wetter has over 10 years of advanced laparoscopic surgery.  After completing his surgical residency in England, he  pioneer the advanced laparoscopic surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, where he continues to teach on a regular basis.  Dr. Wetter has been performing laparoscopic bariatric surgery since 1998. He is Board Certified (American Board of Surgery), Fellow of The American College of Surgeons, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, a member of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, and of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery. Specialties Gastric Bypass Adjustable Gastric Banding (AGB)

Curriculum Vitae

Albert Wetter, MD

Medical Education:
St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, London, England. 1978-82
Qualifications:
MB BS London, England. 1982
Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, 1987
Fellow of The American College of Surgeon, USA

Residencies:
London University Affiliated Hospitals, London, 1982-87
University of California, San Francisco, 1991-95

Fellowship:
Fellow in Advanced Laparoscopic General Surgery under Lawrence W. Way, M.D.
University of California, San Francisco, 1989-1991.

Current Position:
Private Practice in General and Advance Laparoscopic Surgery Mills-Peninsula
Hospital, Burlingame, CA 94401
Seton Medical Center Daly City, CA
San Mateo County General Hospital, San Mateo, CA

Chief Residency:
University of California, San Francisco, USA. 1995
Feb 87- Feb 89 Colchester General Hospital, England. General, biliary
surgery.
Sep 87- Mar 88 St. Mark's Hospital, London, England. Coloproctology.

Post Graduate Courses:
Surgical Fellowship Course, Sep 1987. St Thomas's Hospital, London.
Endoscopy Course, Sep 1988. Royal College of Surgeons of England, London.
Vascular Surgery, Nov 1988. St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London
Research Fellow Mar 89- Jun 89 Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Hepatic, pancreatic transplantation.
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Course, Mar 1990. University of Utah Laser
Institute, USA.
Advanced Laparoscopy Course, UCSF, Nov 1993

Teaching Experience:
Clinical Tutor, Emergency Surgery, 1984. St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London,
England.
Anatomy Tutor, 1985. St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, England.
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Proctor, 1990. Rose Medical Center, Denver,
Colorado.
Laparoscopic General Surgery Course Organizer/Proctor. Oct 1990-1991. UCSF,
U.S.A.
Advanced Laparoscopy Surgery Course, Proctor, UCSF 1995-to date

Societies & Memberships:
Fellow of The American College of Surgeons, 1995.
Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh, 1988.
Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine, London 1988.
American Society Bariatric Surgery
Society Surgery Alimentary Tract
Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons
Nafziger Society
San Francisco Surgical Society

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