BayouLife Top Docs 2019
WALTER SARTOR, MD The Surgery Clinic of Northeast Louisiana 312 Grammont Street, Ste.303 Monroe, LA 318.398.2984
Dr. Walter Moss Sartor earned his B.S. and M.D. from Tulane University. He completed his residency in General Surgery at the University of Maryland. Dr. Sartor, a board-certified general surgeon with over 20 years of experience, is trained in advanced laparoscopic procedures and robotic surgery. He is sought out as a general surgeon for reflux procedures, as well as a full spectrum of other surgical procedures. Since 2003, he has offered weight loss surgery to northeast Louisiana. In 2007, he saw the need for a comprehensive weight loss surgery program and opened the Louisiana Center for Weight Loss Surgery, which has since become an ASMBS Center of Excellence, the first and only one in Northeast Louisiana. He was the first to offer sleeve gastrectomy in north Louisiana in 2008 and continues to provide quality care with a low complication rate. Dr. Sartor has served as chief of surgery at Monroe Surgical Hospital and St Francis Medical Center. He is a fellow of both the American College of Surgeons and the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. He is also a member of the Ouachita Medical Society and the Louisiana state chapters of ACS and ASMBS. Dr. Sartor and his family are active in our community. He enjoys playing guitar, pedal steel and vocals for two regional bands, “Gumbo Dynamite” and “Code Blue & The Flatliners.” In December of 2018, along with Dr. Bart Liles and Dr. Patrick Smith, Dr. Sartor founded The Surgery Clinic of Northeast Louisiana located at 312 Grammont Street, Suite 303, in Monroe. Contact The Surgery Clinic at 318.398.2984.
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