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Shanu N. Kothari MD, FACS, FASMBS, is currently the Jean & H. Harlan Stone Chair of the Department of Surgery at Prisma Health in Greenville, SC. He is a Professor of Surgery at the University of South Carolina, Greenville. Prior to this, he was in practice for 18 years at the Gundersen Clinic in La Crosse, WI. He earned his medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine-Peoria. He completed his general surgery residency at Gundersen Lutheran Medical Foundation in La Crosse, Wisconsin and his fellowship in Minimally Invasive Surgery at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.
Dr. Kothari established a minimally invasive bariatric surgery program at Gundersen Health System and served as its Director from 2001 until 2019. He also established a Minimally Invasive Bariatric Surgery and Advanced Laparoscopy Fellowship in 2003 and served as the fellowship director since its inception until 2019. Dr. Kothari is past President of the Wisconsin Surgical Society - a chapter of the American College of Surgeons.
Dr. Kothari has authored over 130 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 18 book chapters, and has served as the senior editor of the 2011 and 2021 Surgical Clinics of North America issues dedicated to Metabolic and Bariatric surgery. He is an editor of Obesity Care and Bariatric Surgery, and associate editor of Evidence-Based Approach to Minimally Invasive Surgery and an Associate Editor of Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. He is currently the Vice President of the Fellowship Council, The Immediate Past President of the Southwestern Surgical Congress, and the Immediate Past President of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.