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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 2008

Gordon Wisbach, MD MBA FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Clinic

General Surgery

4442 Vereda Luna Llena

San Diego, CA 92130

United States

Contact Information

Biography

Captain (Ret) Gordon Wisbach is a general surgeon that specializes in Minimally Invasive, Metabolic/Bariatric as well as Robotic surgery at the Navy Medicine Readiness & Training Command San Diego (NMTRC-SD). He serves as Director of the ACS-accredited Surgical Simulation/Education fellowship and the inaugural Tele-Surgical Director of 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. CAPT (Ret) Wisbach was 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 is the inaugural Governor representing this society on the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons. He has active research interests in surgical education using simulation and advancing surgical tele-mentoring on a trajectory towards tele-surgery.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

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

Hospital Appointments

Naval Medical Center San Diego

San Diego, CA

Attending

07/2009—Present