Meet Our Team
Serving Rockland, Orange and Northern Bergen Counties
 Dr. Ramon E. Rivera joins Good Samaritan Hospital’s bariatric surgery program with a specialty in minimally invasive bariatric surgery. He received his medical degree from Upstate Medical University at Syracuse in 1996. He completed a surgical internship at Saint Vincent Hospital in NewYork City and surgical residency at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA in 2003. He went on to specialize in advanced laparoscopic surgery and bariatric surgery atWashington University School of Medicine at St. Louis. His primary research interest lies in the study of Weight loss outcomes and their prediction after gastric bypass.
He specializes in the treatment of strointestinal diseases primarily of the foregut including esophagus, stomach, biliary tract, colon and the surgical treatment of obesity using a laparoscopic approach. He is board eligible in general surgery and is member of the American
College of Surgeons (ACS), the American Medical Association (AMA), the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) and the Medical Society of the State of NewYork (MSSNY).
Dr. Rivera has authored several papers on laparascopic surgery and obesity and has had multiple abstracts accepted at the Society of American Gastrointestestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) and the American College of Surgeons. |
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