Dr. Christopher Kowalski, MD

Dr. Christopher Kowalski is a bariatric and general surgeon who has been practicing at Temple University Hospital and Health System since 2003. During that time he practiced advanced laparoscopic and endoscopic procedures related both to bariatric surgery and general surgery.

As an assistant professor of surgery he taught at the Temple University School of Medicine both to medical students and residents. Between 2003 and 2005 he also established and was named director of a the laparoscopic living kidney donor program at Temple University Hospital.

In 2006, he was named director of bariatric surgery at Jeanes Hospital in Philadelphia, one of the Temple Health System hospitals. Since then his practice has been completely devoted to bariatric surgery. He performs laparoscopic and open gastric bypass, laparoscopic banding and laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.

His undergraduate studies were at King’s College in Pennsylvania. He graduated Temple University School of Medicine in 1993 and completed a general surgery residency at The Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC in 2002. He then went on to complete a one year fellowship in advanced laparoscopic and bariatric surgery at Saint Peter’s University Hospital. He trained with Dr. Robert E. Brolin, one of the past presidents if the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS). Recently, he has completed advanced endoscopic training at Ohio State University relating to bariatric surgery. He is board certified in general surgery and a full member of the ASMBS.

Dr. Kowalski has a full commitment to weight loss surgery both pre-operatively and in the post-operative care. He has performed over 700 bariatric cases since he began practicing.

Special interests involve new, minimally invasive endoscopic treatments for obesity.