George Elias, DO, a General Surgeon with Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital and Northern Light Inland Hospital

Get to know General Surgeon Dr. George Elias, who serves patients in Maine.

Dr. Elias is a dual board certified general surgeon specializing in surgical critical care and trauma surgery. He is associated with Northern Light Surgery, serving at both Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Pittsfield, Maine, and Northern Light Inland Hospital, a 48-bed acute care hospital with primary and specialty care offices in greater Waterville communities.

Graduating with his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Degree from Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2011, Dr. Elias laid a strong foundation for his career. 

His expertise is recognized through board certification in surgery and surgical critical care by the American Osteopathic Board of Surgery (AOBS). The AOBS is an organization that provides board certification to qualified Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine who specialize in the use of surgery to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. 

General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. A general surgeon performs a wide range of abdominal surgeries for many forms of intestinal and abdominal wall neoplasms, gallbladder disease, gastric and pancreatic disease. They follow the patient through critical care and surgical recovery all the way to outpatient care. 

Learn More about Dr. George Elias:
Through his findatopdoc profile, https://www.findatopdoc.com/doctor/81587771-George-Elias-Critical-Care-Surgeon or through Northern Light Health, https://doctors.northernlighthealth.org/provider/George+Elias/1902669 

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