Bariatric Surgery
MD, FACS, FASMBS, founder of Endolumik Inc. Associate Professor of Bariatric and Minimally-Invasive Surgery at West Virginia University, West Virginia, USA
Nova Szoka MD, FACS, FASMBS is an associate professor at West Virginia University, as well as the founder of Endolumik Inc. She completed medical school at UC Davis, general surgery residency at the University of New Mexico, and a Bariatric/MIS Fellowship at Duke University. She performs metabolic, weight-loss, and foregut surgery using the latest minimally invasive techniques in laparoscopy, robotics, and endoscopy. Her research interests include: obesity, microbiome, bariatric outcomes, biodesign, as well as healthcare disparities involving sexual and gender minority populations. Dr. Szoka is also the founder of Endolumik Inc. a surgical device company developing fluorescent guided surgical tools.
Selected publications from PubMed
Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Using a Fluorescence-Guided Gastric Calibration Tube.
Szoka N, Fontaine-Nicola A, Harman H, Broderick R, Tabone L, Abunnaja S, Reyes E
CRSLS. 2026 Apr-Jun;13(2) doi: 10.4293/CRSLS.2025.00060.
Assessing Caregiver Burden in Patients Pursuing Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery with Dual Roles as Patients and Caregivers.
Etuk R, Aylward L, Giolzetti A, Tabone L, Szoka N, Abunnaja S, Cox S
Obes Surg. 2025 Nov;35(11):4722-4729 doi: 10.1007/s11695-025-08304-7.
Fluorescence-guided sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass: first-in-human trial using novel gastric calibration tube.
Abunnaja S, Bronikowski D, Turner A, Szoka N, Guillow R, Cox S, Tabone LE
Surg Endosc. 2025 Nov;39(11):7449-7459 doi: 10.1007/s00464-025-12106-4.
Microbiome and genetic predictors of weight loss 12 months postsleeve gastrectomy: insights from a pilot retrospective cohort study.
Pedroso I, Kumbhare SV, Johnson S, Muthukumar KM, Saravanan SK, Irudayanathan C, Sharma G, Tabone L, Sinha R, Almonacid DE, Szoka N
Surg Obes Relat Dis. 2025 Sep;21(9):1035-1041 doi: 10.1016/j.soard.2025.05.008.
Electronic Data Capture of Patient-Report Questionnaire in Patient Management in a Rural Population.
Harman H, Pona AA, Tabone L, Abunnaja S, Szoka N, Cox S
JSLS. 2025 Jul-Sep;29(3) doi: 10.4293/JSLS.2025.00068.
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