Name
L. Albert Wetter, M.D.

Areas of Interest
Obesity surgery, Esophageal surgery, Advanced laparoscopic surgery, Esophageal manometry

Education
College: St.Bartholomew's London
Medical school: St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School MD 1982
Residency: London University Affiliated Hospitals
1982-1987, University of California, San Francisco 1989-1991
Fellowship: Advanced Laparoscopy University of California, San Francisco 1989-1991


Board Certification
American Board of Surgery

Organizations
Fellow American College of Surgeons, Fellow The Royal College of Surgeons, San Francisco Surgical Society, American Society of Bariatric Surgery, Society of Bariatric Surgeons, Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, Fellow The Royal Society of Medicine

Positions
Director, Bariatric Surgery Program Mills-Peninsula Hospitals

Selected Publications

1. Wetter LA, Way LW. Surgical therapy of gallstone disease. SemGastroDis 1991; 20(1):241-49.
2. Wetter LA, Ring EJ, Pelligrini CA, Way LW. Differential diagnosis of sclerosing cholangiocarcinoms of the common hepatic duct (Klatskin tumors). AmJSurg 1991; 161:57-63.
3. Wetter LA, Dineen M, Levitt M, Motson RW. Suture materials and wound sepsis:a controlled trial of polyglycolic acid (Dexon) versus catgut/nylon for appendicectomy wound closure. BrJSurg 1991