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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 2020

Alisa Coker, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Soc of Am Gast End Surgs
  • Soc for Surg Alim Tract
  • Assn for Acad Surg
  • Americas Hernia Society

Additional Information

Gender

Female

Type of Practice

Academic medical center

General Surgery

Contact Information

Biography

I am a minimally invasive general surgeon at Johns Hopkins, specializing in hernia repairs, bariatrics, and foregut. I completed medical school at the University of Colorado before completing both residency and an MIS fellowship at the University of California San Diego. I am a proponent of robotic surgery and have spoken nationally and internationally on the topic.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Bariatric (Severe Obesity) Procedures

  • gastroplasty

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

  • anti-reflux procedures
  • appendectomy
  • fundoplication - laparoscopic
  • gastroesophageal reflux disease

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

  • gallstone disease
  • laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Hernia Procedures

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

Minimal Access Surgery

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • laparoscopic surgery
  • robotic surgery

Hospital Appointments

Johns Hopkins Hospital

Baltimore, MD

Attending

02/2017—Present

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Baltimore, MD

Attending

02/2017—Present

Academic Appointments

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore, MD

Assistant Professor

02/2017—Present