Alan Wittgrove MD

Dr. Alan Wittgrove was born and raised in Missouri. He graduated from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy in 1972. He then attended the University of Missouri School of Medicine, graduating as a Doctor of Medicine. He served his internship and received his surgical residency training at San Diego Naval Hospital. Dr Wittgrove is board certified in general surgery and a Fellow of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.

He served as a staff surgeon at Naval Hospitals in the Philippines, and Bremerton, Washington, and on the surgical teaching staff at San Diego Naval Hospital. He is a member of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, San Diego Society of General Surgeons, San Diego County Medical Society, American College of Surgeons and the California Medical Association. Dr Wittgrove served as the president of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in 2003-2004.

Dr. Wittgrove pioneered the laparoscopic approach of gastric bypass surgery, performing the first laparoscopic gastric bypass as primary surgeon in the world, in November 1993. He and his program have performed over nine-thousand bariatric procedures. Patients seek Dr. Wittgrove's expertise from all over the country to perform their bariatric procedure including gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy and revision surgery.