Listed In Long Island, New York Best Bariatric Surgeons

Dr. Brathwaite, MD, FACS, FASMBS, is a board-certified general surgeon with more than 31 years of experience. He is a Bariatric Surgery and Critical Care Surgery specialist. He is an expert in Laparoscopic Procedures – Gastric Banding, Gastric Bypass, and Sleeve Gastrectomy. He is also skilled in Robotic Gastric Bypasses, and Laparoscopic Revisional Surgery including banding, bypass and laparoscopic revision of prior open Vertical Banded Gastroplasty. He is highly qualified in performing minimally invasive general surgery procedures with a major focus on gastrointestinal surgery.

Medical background:

He did his Medical Degree from the Howard University College of Medicine. He completed his Surgical Residency from St Vincent’s Hospital and Medical Center in New York City and went to the University of Maryland for his Fellowship Training in Trauma and Critical Care.

Membership:

• American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
• Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
• Society for Laparoendoscopic Surgery
• American College of Surgeons
• American College of Chest Physicians
• American College of Critical Care Medicine
• American Association for the Surgery of Trauma

Chairman and Director:

• Dr. Collin Brathwaite is the Medical Director of the Department of Surgery for NYU Langone Hospital Long Island.  (Formerly Winthrop University Hospital, formerly NYU Winthrop Hospital).
• He previously worked at the St Catherine’s Hospital in Smithtown, NY. 

Affiliated with other hospitals:

• Nyu Winthrop Hospital, Mineola, NY
• Long Island Community Hospital in Patchogue NY.