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John E. Meilahn, MD

Director, Bariatric Surgery

Associate Professor, Surgery

Telephone: 215-707-3471

Email: john.meilahn@tuhs.temple.edu

Department of Surgery, Section of General Surgery

BSME, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 1974

 

MD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1984

 

Internship, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, 1990

 

Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, 1991

 

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• Bariatric surgery (laparoscopic, open and revisional)
• Advanced laparoscopic surgery
• Gastrointestinal surgery
• General surgery

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• American Board of Surgery, 1991
• Recertification, 2001

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• Fellow, American College of Surgeons
• American Society of Bariatric Surgery
• Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons
• The Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract

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Recent Medically Related Publications, Obtained from PubMed (Click on PubMed ID to view abstract)

18080765. Maranki JL, Lytes V, Meilahn JE, Harbison S, Friedenberg FK, Fisher RS, Parkman HP, Predictive factors for clinical improvement with Enterra gastric electric stimulation treatment for refractory gastroparesis. Dig Dis Sci 53:8(2072-8)2008 Aug

15166957. Dempsey DT, Delano M, Bradley K, Kolff J, Fisher C, Caroline D, Gaughan J, Meilahn JE, Daly JM, Laparoscopic esophagomyotomy for achalasia: does anterior hemifundoplication affect clinical outcome? Ann Surg 239:6(779-85; discussion 785-7)2004 Jun

1421547. Meilahn JE, The need for improving laparoscopic suturing and knot-tying. J Laparoendosc Surg 2:5(267)1992 Oct

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