Tarek Waked, MD, a General Surgeon with Beebe Center for Weight Loss Surgery
Get to know General Surgeon, Dr. Tarek Waked, who serves patients in Georgetown, Delaware.
Dr. Waked is a board-certified general surgeon who specializes in minimally invasive general and weight loss surgery. He serves as the Director of Bariatric Surgery at Beebe Center for Weight Loss Surgery in Georgetown, Delaware. His special interest is in providing comprehensive and compassionate care to people struggling with weight gain.
During his career, he has performed more than 2,000 successful bariatric surgeries and is an expert in sleeve gastrectomy, gastric bypass and biliary-pancreatic diversion with duodenal switch procedures. He also performs revisional surgeries for sleeves and bypasses as well as general surgery such as minimally invasive colon surgery, hernia surgery, gallbladder surgery, and anti-reflux surgery.
Following his training in general surgery at INOVA Fairfax Hospital in Virginia, Dr. Waked joined the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota where he completed a fellowship in minimally invasive and bariatric surgery. Mayo Clinic in Rochester has been at or near the top of U.S. hospitals throughout the history of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals” rankings.
“My care philosophy has always been to put patients’ interest first. I believe nowadays, weight loss surgery provides the best tool to offer people a healthier way out of their weight struggles” said Dr. Waked. “What is most fulfilling for me is to see patients able to do things that they were not able to do before due to their weight related limitations.”
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.
Throughout his career, Dr. Waked has received many honors and accolades including the Patients’ Choice Award (2016), On-Time Doctor Award (2016), and Compassionate Doctor Recognition (2016), and Delaware Top Surgeon award (2017, 2019, 2020, 2021).
Learn More about Dr. Tarek Waked:
Through his findatopdoc profile, https://www.findatopdoc.com/doctor/1077078-Tarek-Waked-Surgeon or through Beebe Center for Weight Loss Surgery, https://www.beebehealthcare.org/doctors/tarek-waked-md
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