Hometown physician returns to bariatric
surgery in the southland
“I love Kansas City, I am a KC boy,” says Dr. Christopher Cummings, DO, who is the newest addition to a general surgery group at Saint Joseph Medical Center.
Dr. Cummings is excited to be back in south KC, where he grew up and attended high school at Rockhurst. “I got a job working at a hospital that my mom worked at, I grew up 5 blocks away, I couldn’t have asked for a better situation.” Cummings states he remembers this hospital very well from his childhood and believes it plays such an important role in this community. “It just felt right and natural coming back to this area.” Dr. Cummings wife practices medicine at Children’s Mercy and they have one child and are expecting another.
Dr. Cummings recently returned home after completing a five-year residency of general surgery at the University of Illinoi College of Medicine in Peoria. And with him comes experience in a specialty: bariatric surgery. Bariatric surgery is a sub specialty that focuses on surgical techniques for weight loss.
The infrastructure for this specialty is more complicated than one might think. “It is not just as simple as you come in, you see me and then I operate on you,” explains Cummings.
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