Bariatric Surgery - with Farida Bounoua, MD

Dr. Farida Bounoua, a board-certified general surgeon, completed her fellowship in bariatric and minimally invasive general surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The first female bariatric surgeon in Santa Barbara, she is a member of the American Society of Metabolic Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

She has published in many medical journals, and in 2001 she received the Merck Young Investigator Award for her outstanding contribution to research on insulin-induced growth in smooth-muscle vascular cells.