Scott A. Shikora

Scott Alan Shikora, MD FACS (born January 3, 1959) is an American bariatric surgeon.

Following medical School, Dr. Shikora completed both his surgical residency and a fellowship in hyperalimentation at the New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

[3] After completing his fellowship, Shikora spent the next four years in the United States Air Force, where he worked as a staff surgeon.

[4] Since 2011, Shikora has been working at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as a bariatric surgeon and Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.

Shikora has also worked on advisory boards for several medical companies including Medtronic and EnteroMedics.

Dr. Shikora speaking in Jerusalem, Israel in 2009 at the First World Congress for the Advancement of Surgery, in Israel