Reginald C. W. Bell MD, FACS

Dr. Reginald C.W. Bell, M.D., F.A.C.S. specializes in the diagnosis and minimally invasive treatment of foregut diseases. He has been in private practice since 1990. In 2017 Dr Bell founded the Institute of Esophageal and Reflux Surgery, specializing in the diagnosis and minimally invasive treatment of esophageal and gastric disorders. Committed to his specialty in foregut, he and a handful of other specialists founded the American Foregut Society, where he is currently Chair of the Board.

Dr. Bell has recently accepted a position with Ethicon as Consultant for Clinical Affairs. Dr Bell was born in Japan which may account for his love of travel. He grew up in Canada and Northern California, and, after college, thought that he wanted to be a professor of philosophy and symbolism. However, others found his writing boring, and so he thought a more pragmatic choice would be psychiatry. Dr Bell went to medical school with the desire to be a psychoanalyst. Along the way, surgery instead appealed to him as a way to put thought and manual skill together. After completing medical school in Virginia and surgical residency in Colorado he joined a private practice in south metro Denver. Dr Bell has been very involved in laparoscopic surgery, presenting research and teaching at both the national and international level.