Dr. Fady Moustarah, MD, FRCSC

Fady Moustarah is a clinician-scientist specialized in minimally invasive general surgery, with sub-specialization in bariatric and metabolic surgery.  His training and interests include: obesity medicine and surgery, epidemiology and clinical outcomes research, and fundamental science research relating to mechanisms of weight loss and improvements in metabolic conditions, including diabetes mellitus, after gastrointestinal surgery.  He is co-chair of research in bariatric and metabolic surgery and associate professor in the department of surgery, Faculty of Medicine, at Laval University.

After obtaining a bachelors degree in Medical Sciences with distinction and completing a Medical Doctor degree with distinction and honors in research at the University of Alberta, he trained in general surgery at McMaster University and was certified as specialist general surgeon by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in 2002.  He then launched his career in community general surgical practice in southern Ontario, where he also acted as medical education coordinator in the Niagara Health System and established academic affiliation with McMaster University as clinical assistant professor in the department of surgery. Furthering his academic interests, Dr. Moustarah later obtained a Master of Public Health degree in clinical epidemiology at the University of Alberta in 2007. This was followed, in 2008, by a two-year research and clinical fellowship in advanced laparoscopic and bariatric surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio under the mentorship of Dr. Philip Schauer.  Upon completion of his fellowship, Dr. Moustarah joined the medical staff at IUCPQ (Laval Hospital in Quebec city) in December 2010.  In addition to general surgery, he offers advanced laparoscopic surgical therapy to patients with clinically severe obesity.  His current research interests include evaluation of bariatric surgery outcomes and investigating the metabolic effects of gastrointestinal bariatric operations, including the biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch procedure.