Dr. Raul J. Rosenthal

Dr. Rosenthal completed his medical school and surgical residency in Rosario Argentina. In 1982  he emigrated to Frankfurt , Germany where he repeated general surgery residency and became attending surgeon at the Northwest Hospital. In 1993 Dr. Rosenthal emigrated to the USA. Three years of minimally invasive surgery fellowship at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in LA were followed by third general surgery residency at Mount Sinai Medical Center in NY. In 2019 Dr. R was appointed Regional Director of the Digestive Disease Institute of Cleveland Clinic Florida. Since 2012 he is the Chairman of the Department of General Surgery and since 2011 the director of the General surgery Residency Program. Dr. Rosenthal served between 2014 and 2016 as Chief of Staff and Chairman of the Medical Executive Committee at Cleveland Clinic Florida. Dr. Rosenthal was appointed for 6 years in the Board of Governors of SAGES and served for equal amount of time in the SAGES Foundation .Dr. Rosenthal is Founding member and immediate past president of the Fellowship Council. He also served on multiple committee’s and is President of the American Chapter of the International Federation of Societies of Obesity Surgery and Past president of the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeons and past president of the ASMBS Foundation, South Florida Chapter of ACS and the Fellowship Council. He is a founding member and secretary treasurer of the International Society of Fluorescent Image Guided Surgery. He is Editor of SURGERY and founding Clinical Editor of Bariatric Times. He is Governor at the American College of Surgeons. Dr. R. conducted well over 10,000 general surgery and bariatric procedures and trained over 60 fellows in advanced gastrointestinal, minimally invasive and bariatric surgery. He is author or co-author in over 500 abstracts and peer reviewed publications, more than 60 book chapters and over 200 educational videos. He has contributed over 90 book chapters is the Co Editor of several books.