Gordon Wisbach, MD MBA FACS

Captain Gordon Wisbach, MC, USN (Ret) is a Senior General Surgeon, Surgical Educator and Mentor who specializes in Minimally Invasive, Metabolic/Bariatric as well as Robotic surgery at the Navy Medicine Readiness & Training Command San Diego (NMTRC-SD). He is founding Director of the ACS-accredited Surgical Simulation/Education fellowship and serves as Tele-Surgical Advisor for the Virtual Medical Operations Center. He was awarded his Medical Degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and completed his residency training at NMRTC-SD. Dr. Wisbach is fellowship trained in Advanced Laparoscopic/Bariatric Surgery at Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He holds the title of Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland and earned his MBA from the Naval Post-graduate School in Monterey, California. CAPT (Ret) Wisbach is past president of the Excelsior Surgical Society and serves as the inaugural Governor representing this Society on the ACS Board of Governors. He has active research interests in surgical education using simulation and advancing surgical tele-mentoring on a trajectory towards tele-surgery.

Bariatric (Severe Obesity) Procedures

• Bariatric (Severe Obesity) Procedures
• biliopancreatic diversion
• laparoscopic gastric bypass

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

• Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure
• abdominal pain
• adhesion removal
• anti-reflux procedures
• appendectomy
• feeding tubes
• fundoplication
• fundoplication - laparoscopic
• gastroesophageal reflux disease
• peptic ulcer disease
• splenectomy

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

• cholecystectomy
• gallstone disease
• laparoscopic cholecystectomy
• liver biopsy
• pancreatic cysts

Hernia Procedures

• abdominal hernia
• component separation
• epigastric hernia
• femoral hernia
• Hernia Procedures
• inguinal hernia
• laparoscopic hernia repair
• paraesophageal hernia
• umbilical hernia
• ventral hernia

Minimal Access Surgery

Skin & Soft Tissue Disorders/Procedures

• component separation
• epidermal cyst

Colon and Rectal Disorders/Cancer

• biopsy of tumors
• colectomy
• colon surgery
• colonic polyps
• colonoscopy
• diverticular disease
• esophagogastroduodenoscopy
• gastrointestinal bleeding
• ileostomy
• intussusception
• laparoscopic colon surgery
• Meckel's diverticulum

Minimally Invasive Procedures

• endoscopic surgery
• laparoscopic surgery
• Minimally Invasive Procedures
• robotic surgery

Naval Medical Center San Diego

San Diego, CA

Attending

07/2009—Present

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert

Bethesda, MD

Assistant Professor

07/2007—07/2015

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Clinical Instructor

07/2008—06/2009

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert

Bethesda, MD

Associate Professor

07/2015—Present

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert

Bethesda, MD

Professor

09/2022—Present