Dr. Renee Hilton

Dr. L. Renee Hilton-Rowe is an Associate Professor at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University Medical Center.  She is the Section Chief of Minimally Invasive Surgery and the Director of the Center of Obesity and Metabolism at Augusta University. She is the past ASMBS State Access to Care Representative for the state of Georgia and is currently serving as the President of the Georgia ASMBS state chapter. She will serve as President of GA ASMBS from 2022-2024.  She is the Access to Care Committee Co-Chair for ASMBS. She serves on numerous other committees within ASMBS as well as SAGES. 

She completed her general surgery residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital at the University of Miami and then fellowship in bariatric and minimally invasive surgery at Yale University.  She serves in multiple leadership roles within the surgery department at Augusta University in addition to being section chief of MIS including being the director of robotic surgery and serving on the committees of quality and safety and operations.  She is also a Longitudinal Career Advisor for the Medical College of Georgia and currently advises over 150 medical students. 

Her main professional and scientific interests focus on minimally invasive surgery of the foregut, bariatric surgery, complex revisional bariatric surgery, access to care, adolescent bariatric surgery, racial disparities in bariatric and minimally invasive surgery, abdominal wall reconstruction, and achalasia.

She currently resides and practices in Augusta, Georgia. She enjoys spending time with her family, hiking, skiing, boating, traveling and pretty much any activity that involves the outdoors. You can find her on Twitter @reneehilton30 and Instagram @reneehilton.md