In association with
Southwest Surgeons
for Obesity & General
Surgery, PA

Benjamin Clapp, MD, PA

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Research Interests & Publications:

• “Laparoscopic Management of Small Bowel Intussception in a 16 year old with Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome”
  Published in the Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, 2008
  
• “Laparoscopic Revisional Bariatric Surgery”
  Published in Surgical Endoscopy, 2008
• “Decreased visceral adipose tissue nine months after Bariatric surgery is associated with dramatic changes in metabolic gene expression”
  Presented to the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeons, San Diego, CA in July 2007
• “Laparoscopic Spleen Preserving Distal Pancreatectomy after Gastric Bypass for Nesidioblastosis”
  Presented to the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, April 2007
• “Has the Management of Gallston Ileus Changed in the Laparoscopic Era?”
  Presented to the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, Apr 2007
• “Endoscopic Findings and Treatments of Retained Foreign Bodies after Gastric Bypass”
  Published in Surgical Endoscopy, 2007
• “Patient Comprehension and Recall after Laparoscopic Appendectomy”
  Published in the Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, 2007
• “Preoperative Upper Endoscopy is Useful Prior to Revisional Bariatric surgery”
  Published in the Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, 2007
• “c-KIT Negative Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors: Case Report and Topic Discussion”
  “Community Acquired Clostribium Difficile Colitis masquerading as Appendicitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature”
• Robotic Assistance provides excellent outcomes during the learning curve for laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: results from 100 robotic assisted gastric bypasses”
  Published in the American Journal of Surgery, 2006
• “Laparoscopic Revision of a Non-Adjustable Gastric Band to a Roux-n-Y Gastric Bypass”
  Video presented to the American College of Surgeons, Chicago, IL in Oct 2006
• “The Four Arm Robotic Assisted laparoscopic Gastric Bypass”
  Video presented to the 10th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery, Berlin, Germany in Sept 2006
• “Pediatric Deaths from BB and Pellet Guns”
  Presented to the Southwest Surgical Congress, Palm Springs, CA in Mar 2007
• “Four Arm Robotic Gastric Bypass: A new technique”
  Presented at the Minimally Invasive Robotic Association, Innsbruck, Austria in Dec 2005
• “Bariatric Surgery Improves Glucose metabolism and Leads to Favorable Changes in Left Ventricular Geometry in the Clinically Serve Obese”
  May 2006
• “Robotic Surgery”
  Presented to the Southwest Hispanic Physicians Association, El Paso, TX in Nov 2006
• Hospital and Surgical Center Affiliations:

Providence Memorial Hospital
Las Palmas Medical Center
Sierra Medical Center
El Paso Del Norte Surgical Center
El Paso Day Surgery

Surgical Philosophy: