Professor of Surgery Chief, Minimally Invasive Bariatric and General Surgery
General Surgery
Dr. Anita P. Courcoulas, MD
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Anita Courcoulas practices General Surgery. She graduated from Boston University School of Medicine. Boston University School of Medicine is ranked 30 in research and 52 in primary care medicine She has 4 awards "America's Top Doctors", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification", "Pittsburgh Magazine" and "Fellow (FACS)". Dr. Anita P. Courcoulas has written publications. She has 85 publications published with PubMed. The lastest paper is: 'Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy reduces total hospital costs in head-injured patients.' Doctor Anita P. Courcoulas, MD accepts Medicare.
Publications
- Objectively-measured sedentary time and cardiometabolic health in adults with severe obesity.
- Mass Treatment With Bariatric Surgery for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus-Reply.
- No Rush to Judgment for Bariatric Surgery.
- Clarification of the goals of the national institutes of health symposium on bariatric surgery outcomes.
- CardioVascular Risk Factors in Severely Obese Adolescents: The Teen Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (Teen-LABS) Study.
- Child Maltreatment and the Adolescent Patient With Severe Obesity: Implications for Clinical Care.
- Technical factors associated with anastomotic leak after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.
- Kidney function in severely obese adolescents undergoing bariatric surgery.
- Continued loss in visceral and intermuscular adipose tissue in weight-Stable women following bariatric surgery.
- Long-term Outcomes of Bariatric Surgery: A National Institutes of Health Symposium.
- Access to care for adolescents seeking weight loss surgery.
- Surgical vs Medical Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
- Eating behavior and eating disorders in adults before bariatric surgery.
- Hepatic Pathology among Patients without Known Liver Disease Undergoing Bariatric Surgery: Observations and a Perspective from the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric...
- Adolescent bariatric surgery program characteristics: The Teen Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (Teen-LABS) study experience.
- StomaphyX vs a Sham Procedure for Revisional Surgery to Reduce Regained Weight in Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Patients : A Randomized Clinical Trial.
- Validity of Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis for Measuring Changes in Body Water and Percent Fat After Bariatric Surgery.
- Metabolic Syndrome Prevalence and Associations in a Bariatric Surgery Cohort from the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery-2 Study.
- Validity of Self-reported Weights Following Bariatric Surgery.
- The Effect of Obesity in Adolescence on Adult Health Status.
- Changes in Sexual Functioning and Sex Hormone Levels in Women Following Bariatric Surgery.
- Weight Change and Health Outcomes at 3 Years After Bariatric Surgery Among Individuals With Severe Obesity.
- Perioperative Outcomes of Adolescents Undergoing Bariatric Surgery: The Teen-Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (Teen-LABS) Study.
- Sexual functioning and sex hormones in persons with extreme obesity and seeking surgical and nonsurgical weight loss.
- Baseline characteristics of participants in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery-2 (LABS-2) study.
- Assessment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults Undergoing Bariatric Surgery in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery-2 (LABS-2) Study.
- Reporting weight change: standardized reporting accounting for baseline weight.
- Preoperative lifestyle intervention in bariatric surgery: Initial results from a randomized, controlled trial.
- Can technical factors explain the volume-outcome relationship in gastric bypass surgery?
- Distribution of 10-Year and Lifetime Predicted Risk for CardioVascular Disease Prior to Surgery in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery-2 Study.
- Thirty-day Mortality After Bariatric Surgery: Independently Adjudicated Causes of Death in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery.
- Pre- to postoperative changes in physical activity: report from the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery-2.
- Optimizing long-term weight control after bariatric surgery: a pilot study.
- Reproductive health of women electing bariatric surgery.
- Nutritional assessment of bariatric surgery patients presenting for plastic surgery: a prospective analysis.
- Relationship between surgeon volume and adverse outcomes after RYGB in Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS) study.
- Psychiatric evaluation and follow-up of bariatric surgery patients.
- Relationship of psychiatric disorders to 6-month outcomes after gastric bypass.
- Bariatric surgery for the severely obese adolescent.
- Revision of jejunoileal bypass to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: technical considerations and outcomes from 2 cases.
- Childhood maltreatment and psychiatric morbidity in bariatric surgery candidates.
- Psychiatric disorders among bariatric surgery candidates: relationship to obesity and functional health status.
- Should completely intracorporeal anastomosis be considered in obese patients who undergo laparoscopic colectomy for benign or malignant Disease of the colon?
- A shrinking stomach. What you need to know about stomach surgery for weight loss.
- Winning at weight loss. Stomach surgery for weight loss. For the severely obese, this last resort offers impressive benefits. But it's not risk-free.
- Long-term changes in blood pressure in extremely obese patients who have undergone bariatric surgery.
- Filling the gaps in bariatric surgical research.
- Advanced age and sex as predictors of adverse outcomes following gastric bypass surgery.
- Outcomes of Roux-en-Y gastric bypass stratified by a body mass index of 70 kg/m2: a comparative analysis of 825 procedures.
- Panniculectomy as an adjuvant to bariatric surgery.
- Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for recalcitrant gastroesophageal reflux Disease in morbidly obese patients.
- TRISS unexpected survivors: an outdated standard?
- Self-report of gastroIntestinal side effects after bariatric surgery.
- Authors' reply to Laurent.
- Bariatric surgery for obesity and metabolic conditions in adults.
- Bariatric surgery improves cardiac function in morbidly obese patients with severe cardiomyopathy.
- Outcome of laparoscopic ventral Hernia repair in morbidly obese patients with a body mass index exceeding 35 kg/m2.
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the transplant population.
- Driveway injuries in children: risk factors, morbidity, and mortality.
- Trauma center maturation: quantification of process and outcome.
- Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy reduces total hospital costs in head-injured patients.
- Cardiac arrest before repair or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation cannulation does not increase the mortality rate associated with congenital Diaphragmatic hernia.
- Resource utilization for minimally invasive direct and standard coronary artery bypass grafting.
- Lung volume reduction or Lung transplantation for end-stage pulmonary emphysema?
- Blunt splenic injury in adults: clinical and CT criteria for management, with emphasis on active extravasation.
- Effects of hemodilution on long-term survival in an uncontrolled hemorrhagic shock model in rats.
- Management of blunt splenic trauma: significant differences between adults and children.
- An analysis of the operative experience of North American pediatric surgical training programs and residents.
- Inhibition of nitric oxide with aminoguanidine reduces bacterial translocation after endotoxin challenge in vivo.
- MIDCAB characteristics and results: the CardioThoracic Systems (CTS) registry.
- Relationship of body mass index with demographic and clinical characteristics in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS).
- Laparoscopic revision of Nissen fundoplication to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass in morbidly obese patients.
- Physical activity levels of patients undergoing bariatric surgery in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery study.
- History of smoking and postcessation weight gain among weight loss surgery candidates.
- Safety and efficacy of bariatric surgery: Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery.
- Laparoscopic gastric bypass after antireflux surgery for the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux in morbidly obese patients: initial experience.
- The relationship of surgeon and hospital volume to outcome after gastric bypass surgery in Pennsylvania: a 3-year summary.
- Comparing the outcomes after laparoscopic versus open gastric bypass: a matched paired analysis.
- Acute, complete proximal small bowel Obstruction after laparoscopic gastric bypass due to intraluminal blood clot formation.
- Teen-Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery: methodological features of the first prospective multicenter study of adolescent bariatric surgery.
- Reversal of type 2 diabetes mellitus and improvements in cardioVascular risk factors after surgical weight loss in adolescents.
- Perioperative safety in the longitudinal assessment of bariatric surgery.
- Comparison of 30-day outcomes after non-LapBand primary and revisional bariatric surgical procedures from the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery study.
- Risk of suicide after long-term follow-up from bariatric surgery.
Schools
Boston University School Of Medicine
University Of Pittsburgh
Procedures Preformed
- Appendectomy, Laparoscopic
- Gallbladder Removal (Cholecystectomy), Laparoscopic
- Gastric Bypass Surgery, Laparoscopic
- Incisional Hernia Repair, Laparoscopic
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Conditions Treated
- Abdominal Pain
- Appendicitis
- Atelectasis
- Cholecystitis and Gallstones
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Doctors Specialties
- General Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Pittsburgh Magazine
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center -
Boston University School of Medicine
Hospital
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UPMC Passavant -
UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1295709517 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | COURCOULAS | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | ANITA | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 152132546 | |
| NPPES Provider State | PA | |
| Specialty Description | General Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 122.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1295709517 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | COURCOULAS |
| First Name Of The Provider | ANITA |
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