• Hartford HealthCare Medical Group
• Hartford Hospital
• Integrated Care Partners

Fellowship
University of Alabama ‐ Advanced Minimally Invasive Surgery and Bariatric Surgery

Internship
Mount Sinai Hospital ‐ Surgery

Medical School
Chicago Medical School

Undergraduate
Cornell University

Professional Organizations

• American College of Surgeons, Member
• American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Member
• Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeon, Member

Dr. Darren Tishler currently serves as the Division Chief of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery at Hartford Hospital, Chief of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery for Hartford Healthcare, and Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.

Dr. Tishler received his medical education from The Chicago Medical School, and completed his fellowship in minimally invasive and bariatric surgery at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.

Dr. Tishler’s current research interests include studying the response of medical conditions in the morbidly obese to various surgical treatment options, the role of robotics in bariatric surgery, the study of nutritional abnormalities after weight loss surgery, and the long-term surgical management of the post-bariatric surgery patient.

Hartford Hospital’s large volume practice allows for multiple prospective and retrospective research projects, which often utilize multidisciplinary collaboration across specialties such as genomic medicine and functional neuroimaging.

Every day, Dr. Tishler is faced with helping patients address the challenges of weight loss surgery and to help them choose the best possible operation, as it is critically important to improve our understanding of the effective manage of the surgical weight loss patient.

Published works:

Ng J, Seip RL, Stone A, Ruaño G, Tishler DS, Papasavas PK. Ethnic Variation in weight loss, but not comorbidity remission, after laparoscopic gastric banding and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Surg Obes Rel Dis 2014; in press.

Papasavas PK, Tishler DS, Ng JS, Stone AM, Ajayi OA, Muddasani KP. Gastric bypass surgery as a treatment of recalcitrant gastroparesis. Surg Obes Rel Dis, 2014, 10 (5): 795-8.

Tishler DS, Gonzales QH, Plata-Munoz JJ, Bondora A, Vickers SM, Leath T, Clements RH. Incidence of Clinically Evident Deep Venous Thrombosis Following Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass. Surg Endosc, 2004, 18:1082-4.

2011 Hartford Magazine Top Ranked Doctors in Hartford, Surgery

2011 Connecticut Magazine Ranked Top Doctor in Connecticut, Bariatric Medicine

2010 Hartford Magazine Top Ranked Doctors in Hartford, Surgery

2009 Hartford Magazine Top Ranked Doctors in Hartford, Surgery

2007 Hartford Magazine Top Ranked Doctors in Hartford, Surgery

Recipient of the 2007 University of Connecticut Department of Surgery Joseph Civetta, MA award for Teacher of the Year

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