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| Adolescent Bariatric Surgery |
Address:
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730 Welch Road, 2nd floor
Palo Alto, CA 94304
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Information and referrals:
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(650) 736-2114
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Fax:
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(650) 725-5577
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Hours:
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Wednesday, 12:30 pm-5:00 pm
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Thursday, 9:30 am-12:00 pm
Monday-Friday as needed for urgent issues
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Bariatric Surgery Overview

Dr. Sanjeev Dutta, Kayla Shoopman, and Program Coordinator Susan Farrales, RN, MSN, FNP
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Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital provides bariatric surgery as an obesity treatment option through the Center for Healthy Weight. Bariatric surgery alters the stomach and/or intestines to treat severe obesity. Severely obese adolescents may be candidates for bariatric surgery if they:
The procedure is anything but a “quick fix” for obesity and cannot be considered lightly. Potential patients must meet strict criteria and are first evaluated in our Pediatric Weight Clinic. Together with their families, they must also commit to lifelong lifestyle changes.
Patients who undergo bariatric surgery and follow postoperative guidelines may lose more than half of their excess body weight and may reduce or eliminate obesity-related diseases (comorbidities). Most of our patients have lost over 100 pounds.
In 2004, Packard Children’s Hospital was the first children’s hospital in California to offer bariatric surgery to adolescents. It remains one of the few children’s hospitals in the U.S., and the only one on the West Coast, to provide this treatment to adolescents.
Craig T. Albanese, MD, leads Packard Children’s Hospital’s bariatric surgery team. Its multidisciplinary group of clinicians is trained to treat the unique needs of bariatric surgery patients. In addition, Packard Children’s surgeons and other Center for Healthy Weight team members refine and evaluate new surgical procedures with local, national and international colleagues.
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For more information about bariatric surgery at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, please contact:
If you are looking for bariatric surgery information for adults, please visit the Stanford Hospital & Clinics Bariatric Surgery program Web pages.
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is located in Palo Alto, adjacent to Stanford University Hospital, approximately 20 miles north of San Jose, CA and 40 miles south of San Francisco.
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
725 Welch Road
Palo Alto, California 94304
(650) 497-8000
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