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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 2003

Raul Jacobo Rosenthal, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Am Soc for Metabolic & Bariatric Surg
  • Amer Surg Assn
  • Soc of Am Gast End Surgs
  • Israel Surgical Society
  • Asoc Argen de Cir
  • Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract

Additional Information

Gender

Male

General Surgery

2950 Cleveland Clinic Blvd

Weston, FL 33331

United States

Contact Information

Biography

Chairman Department of General Surgery Director General Surgery Program Director, Bariatric and Metabolic Institute. Program Director, General Surgery Residency Program and Advanced GI Fellowship

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Bariatric (Severe Obesity) Procedures

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

Endocrine (Gland)

  • adrenal surgery

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

  • abdominal pain
  • adhesion removal
  • anti-reflux procedures
  • appendectomy
  • esophagus perforation
  • feeding tubes
  • fundoplication
  • fundoplication - laparoscopic
  • gastric cancer
  • gastroesophageal reflux disease
  • peritonitis
  • splenectomy

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

  • bile duct surgery
  • biliary tract disease
  • cholecystectomy
  • gallstone disease
  • laparoscopic cholecystectomy
  • liver biopsy
  • pancreatitis

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

  • laser surgery

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

  • adrenal tumors
  • esophagus cancer/tumors
  • gastrointestinal cancer/tumors
  • stomach cancer/tumors

Thoracic

  • achalasia
  • esophageal surgery
  • hiatal hernia
  • myotomy

Hospital Appointments

Bariatric and Metabolic Institute and Section of Minimally Invasive Surgery Director, Fellowship in MIS Cleveland Clinic Florida

Chairman

Cleveland Clinic florida

General Surgery,

Chairman

01/2012—01/2013

Emeritus Chief of Staff

Cleveland Clinic, Weston, Florida, FL

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

06/2014—Present

Academic Appointments

Florida International University School of Medicine and Affiliate associate professor of surgery, Unive

Professor

Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University

Boca Raton, FL

Clinical Professor

09/2013—Present

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Cleveland, OH

Clinical Professor

09/2018—Present

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Cleveland, OH

Clinical Professor

09/2018—Present

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Cleveland, OH

Clinical Professor

09/2018—Present