Education
Medical School:
Doctor of Medicine, 1990-1996
Facultad de Ciencias Medicas, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba
Cordoba, Argentina
Residency:
General Surgery Residency, 1996-2001
Hospital Carlos G.
Durand Buenos Aires, Argentina
Post-Doctoral Fellowship:
Gastrointestinal Surgery and Gastrointestinal Motility, 2002-2004
Center for the Study of Gastrointestinal Mortility and Secretion, University of California-San
Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Clinical Fellowship:
Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery Fellowship, 2005-2006
Minimally Invasive Surgery Center, University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
Advanced Laparoscopic/Robotic Surgery Fellowship, 2004-2005
Minimally Invasive Surgery Center, University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL
Hospital Affiliations
University Medical Center New Orleans
Committees
National Committees:
- Member, Robotics Committee: Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
(SAGES)
- Member, Foregut Surgery Task Force: Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic
Surgeons (SAGES)
- Member, ASMBS Foundation Board of Directors
Selected Publications
- Hage K, Cornejo J, Allotey JK, Castillo-Larios R, Caposole MZ, Iskandar M, Kellogg
TA, Galvani C, Elli EF, Ghanem OM. Feasibility and Outcomes of Simultaneous Gastric
Bypass with Paraesophageal Hernia Repair in Elderly Patients. Obes Surg. 2023 Jul
16. doi: 10.1007/s11695-023-06726-9. Epub ahead of print.
- Karan Grover, MD, PharmD; Shravan Sarvepalli, MD; Daniel Praise; Mowoh; Leena Khaitan;
Mujjahid AbbasA. Cognitive Task Analysis of Expert Surgeons Performing the Robotic
Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass. Accepted for publication in Surgical Endoscopy July 2023.
- Ibele AR, Nau PN, Galvani C, Roth JS, Goldberg RF, Kurian MS, Khaitan L, Gould J,
Pandya YK; SAGES Foregut Taskforce. Surgeon experience with insurance barriers to
offering gastric bypass as an evidence-based operation for pathologic GERD. Surg Endosc.
2023 Jul 25. doi: 10.1007/s00464-023-10212-9. Epub ahead of print.
- Benjamin Clapp, Samuel Cottam, Marita Salame, John D. Marr, Carlos Galvani, Jaime
Ponce, Wayne J. English, Omar M. Ghanem. Comparative Analysis of Sleeve Conversions
of the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program
2020 Database. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, 2023, ISSN 1550-7289, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soard.2023.07.011.
