Gerald Kirshenbaum, MD, MHA, RVT, FACS, a Denver bariatric surgeon, graduated from Brown University, magna cum laude. He received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. His residency training was at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, a Harvard teaching hospital. After serving in the U.S. Army he was an assistant professor of surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. He came to Denver in 1979. He is on the staff at the University of Colorado as an Assistant Clinical Professor of both Surgery and Medicine. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Surgeons. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, as well as the American Gastroenterology Association, and he is a member of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery.
Dr. Kirshenbaum performed the first laparoscopic cholecystectomy in Colorado in 1989. Other firsts in Colorado: The first laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair, first laparoscopic ventral hernia repair, and the first laparoscopic anti-reflux repair. He has done 10,000 laparoscopic procedures.