Michael Lee, M.D.

Dr. Michael J. Lee graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2002. He obtained his M.D. from the University of Texas at Houston. He is a board certified surgeon who completed his General Surgery Residency at UT Southwestern and completed his Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Surgery/Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. In addition to his duty as the MIS/Bariatric Fellowship Co-Director, he is also the Director of Bariatric Surgery at UT Southwestern. He specializes in Advanced Laparoscopy and Bariatric Surgery including Lap Band placement, Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, Laparoscopic roux-en-Y gastric bypass, and Revisional Bariatric Surgery. He is currently welcoming new patients.

Medical School	University of Texas Medical School at Houston (2006)
Residency	UT Southwestern Medical Center (2011), General Surgery
Fellowship	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (2012), Minimally Invasive/bariatric Surgery

• Bariatric Surgery
• Surgery
• Weight Loss & Obesity

• Primary Interests
• Appendectomy
• Cholecystectomy (Gallbladder Removal)
• Gastric Sleeve (Bariatric Procedure)
• Inguinal Hernia
• Laparoscopic Appendectomy
• Laparoscopic Biopsies
• Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy (Gallbladder Removal)
• Laparoscopic G-Tube Placement
• Laparoscopic Gastric Banding (Lapband)
• Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass
• Laparoscopic Incisional Hernia Repair
• Laparoscopic J-Tube Placement
• Laparoscopic Robotic Heller Myotomy
• Laparoscopic Splenectomy
• Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia Repair
• Paraesophageal Hernia
• Sarcoid
• Small Bowel Resection
• Splenectomy
• Umbilical Hernia

• Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Advanced Laparoscopy

Featured Publications

Robotic assistance provides excellent outcomes in the learning curve for LRYGB: results from 100 robotic assisted gastric bypasses

Yu SC, Clapp BL, Lee MJ, Albrecht WC, Scarborough TK, Wilson EB Am J Surg 2006 192 (6) 21(2)

Featured Books

Medical Management of Postsurgical Bariatric Complications. In Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Clinics of North America:

Lee MJ, Scott DJ (2011).

Laparoscopic Splenectomy (In preparation). In Cameron's Current Surgical Therapy, Eleventh Edition:

Lee, MJ, Phillips EH (). Elsevier

Training to Proficiency. In SAGES Quality, Outcomes, and Safety Manual:

Lee MJ, Scott DJ. (2011). Woodbury, CT, Cine-Med Inc

• SAGES Best of Video Scientific Session
  Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy after Failed Vertical Banded Gastroplasty (2011)

• American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (2012)
• Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (2010)
• American College of Surgeons (2006)