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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 2001

Timothy Michael Farrell, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Southeastern Surg Cong
  • Soc of Am Gast End Surgs
  • Am Soc for Metabolic & Bariatric Surg
  • Assn for Surg Ed
  • Soc of Univ Surg
  • Southern Surg Assn
  • Amer Surg Assn

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Academic medical center

General Surgery

Contact Information

Biography

Academic practice focused on advanced foregut laparoscopy, including GERD, esophageal motility disorders and severe obesity.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Bariatric (Severe Obesity) Procedures

  • laparoscopic gastric bypass
  • roux-en-Y gastric bypass

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

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

Hernia Procedures

  • abdominal hernia
  • laparoscopic hernia repair
  • paraesophageal hernia
  • umbilical hernia
  • ventral hernia

Minimal Access Surgery

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • laparoscopic surgery

Hospital Appointments

University of North Carolina Hospitals

Chapel Hill, North carolina,

Attending

Academic Appointments

UNC 2011-present

Professor

UNC 2005-2011

Associate Professor

UNC 1999-2005

Assistant Professor