Dr. Matthew Fitzer
Bariatric Surgeon and Physician
Dr. Matthew Fitzer is a fellowship-trained bariatric surgeon who has focused on providing excellent care for the obese patient since 2005. Since 2012, he has been serving patients in Herndon, Reston, Fairfax, Arlington, Alexandria, Loudoun County, and the DC metro area. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeons. He has founded and served as the Medical Director of MBSAQIP-Certified bariatric programs at multiple institutions. He has authored book chapters and articles that have been published in prestigious journals including the New England Journal of Medicine.
Dr. Fitzer has performed more than 6,000 laparoscopic weight-loss operations and prescribed weight-loss medication to more than 10,000 patients in the 21+ years that he has been helping people achieve their weight-loss goals.
Training & Background
Dr. Fitzer grew up in Newport News, Virginia. He earned a B.S. in physics at Christopher Newport University and his M.D. at Eastern Virginia Medical School. He completed his general surgery residency at Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah, Georgia, where he became interested in weight loss surgery.
In 2005 he left Savannah for a year-long fellowship in minimally-invasive bariatric surgery at the University of Missouri, where he studied under nationally respected surgery masters including Steven Scott, Roger de la Torre, Bruce Ramshaw, and Steve Eubanks.
In addition to his busy surgical practice, Dr. Fitzer has over twenty years of experience caring for patients who prefer a surgery-free weight-loss program. He has been prescribing injectable GLP-1 medications for weight loss since 2006. His surgical practice in Herndon, Virginia is built on the same principles he learned in fellowship: high-volume laparoscopic technique, conservative patient selection, and long-term follow-up.
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