About Us:

The Obesity Management Program, as part of the Bariatric Surgery service, is an American Society for Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence, a designation that recognizes obesity treatment programs that are comprehensive in nature and demonsrate a track record of positive outcomes in bariatric surgery. The program offers both medical and surgical approaches to weight loss, with the two most common surgical procedures being Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and adjustable gastric banding. 

GBMC offers an extensive multidisciplinary team approach to caring for bariatric patients based on criteria established by the National Institutes of Health. In addition to a specially trained clinical staff of surgeons, operating room nurses, nurse practitioners and nutritionists, the program offers access to exercise and wellness programs, extensive patient education via pre- and post-operative support groups, psychiatric consultation, pulmonary consultation and sleep studies.
Our Center

The Comprehensive Obesity Management Program at GBMC is a surgical weight loss program located in Towson, MD. Its physicians specialize in weight loss surgery for morbidly obese patients, providing a multi-disciplinary approach to caring for patients. The program offers outstanding patient results through a full range of surgical weight loss options.

Mission and Goals:

It is the program's primary goal to provide patients with the necessary tools to lead to healthier lives and achieve long-term weight loss success.

Center of Excellence

GBMC's Comprehensive Obesity Management Program is the oldest recognized American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), Center of Excellence in the Metropolitan Baltimore area. The Center of Excellence designation was recertified in April 2009. The Center of Excellence designation recognizes obesity management programs that are comprehensive in nature and demonstrate outstanding track records of positive patient results.

The program's Commitment to Excellence is demonstrated by its:

Patient outcomes.

Compliance with the ASMBS guidelines for the "Center of Excellence"

Open communication between patient and COMP staff

Continuing education/training for our surgeons and staff on the latest bariatric procedures and prevention of long-term nutritional deficiencies.

About Us:

The Obesity Management Program, as part of the Bariatric Surgery service, is an American Society for Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence, a designation that recognizes obesity treatment programs that are comprehensive in nature and demonsrate a track record of positive outcomes in bariatric surgery. The program offers both medical and surgical approaches to weight loss, with the two most common surgical procedures being Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and adjustable gastric banding. 

GBMC offers an extensive multidisciplinary team approach to caring for bariatric patients based on criteria established by the National Institutes of Health. In addition to a specially trained clinical staff of surgeons, operating room nurses, nurse practitioners and nutritionists, the program offers access to exercise and wellness programs, extensive patient education via pre- and post-operative support groups, psychiatric consultation, pulmonary consultation and sleep studies.
Our Center

The Comprehensive Obesity Management Program at GBMC is a surgical weight loss program located in Towson, MD. Its physicians specialize in weight loss surgery for morbidly obese patients, providing a multi-disciplinary approach to caring for patients. The program offers outstanding patient results through a full range of surgical weight loss options.

Mission and Goals:

It is the program's primary goal to provide patients with the necessary tools to lead to healthier lives and achieve long-term weight loss success.

Center of Excellence

GBMC's Comprehensive Obesity Management Program is the oldest recognized American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), Center of Excellence in the Metropolitan Baltimore area. The Center of Excellence designation was recertified in April 2009. The Center of Excellence designation recognizes obesity management programs that are comprehensive in nature and demonstrate outstanding track records of positive patient results.

The program's Commitment to Excellence is demonstrated by its:

Patient outcomes.

Compliance with the ASMBS guidelines for the "Center of Excellence"

Open communication between patient and COMP staff

Continuing education/training for our surgeons and staff on the latest bariatric procedures and prevention of long-term nutritional deficiencies.

About Us:

The Obesity Management Program, as part of the Bariatric Surgery service, is an American Society for Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence, a designation that recognizes obesity treatment programs that are comprehensive in nature and demonsrate a track record of positive outcomes in bariatric surgery. The program offers both medical and surgical approaches to weight loss, with the two most common surgical procedures being Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and adjustable gastric banding. 

GBMC offers an extensive multidisciplinary team approach to caring for bariatric patients based on criteria established by the National Institutes of Health. In addition to a specially trained clinical staff of surgeons, operating room nurses, nurse practitioners and nutritionists, the program offers access to exercise and wellness programs, extensive patient education via pre- and post-operative support groups, psychiatric consultation, pulmonary consultation and sleep studies.
Our Center

The Comprehensive Obesity Management Program at GBMC is a surgical weight loss program located in Towson, MD. Its physicians specialize in weight loss surgery for morbidly obese patients, providing a multi-disciplinary approach to caring for patients. The program offers outstanding patient results through a full range of surgical weight loss options.

Mission and Goals:

It is the program's primary goal to provide patients with the necessary tools to lead to healthier lives and achieve long-term weight loss success.

Center of Excellence

GBMC's Comprehensive Obesity Management Program is the oldest recognized American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), Center of Excellence in the Metropolitan Baltimore area. The Center of Excellence designation was recertified in April 2009. The Center of Excellence designation recognizes obesity management programs that are comprehensive in nature and demonstrate outstanding track records of positive patient results.

The program's Commitment to Excellence is demonstrated by its:

Patient outcomes.

Compliance with the ASMBS guidelines for the "Center of Excellence"

Open communication between patient and COMP staff

Continuing education/training for our surgeons and staff on the latest bariatric procedures and prevention of long-term nutritional deficiencies.

Division of Gynecologic Oncology
443-849-2765
410-828-0830

GMBC is the only hospital in Mid-Atlantic region to offer the full array of minimally invasive options for women with benign or cancerous gynecologic conditions including advanced conventional laparoscopy, single incision laparoscopic surgery, robotic surgery and sentinel lymph node technology.

The first single incision laparoscopic endometrial cancer staging case on the East Coast done at GBMC by Dr. Amanda Nickles Fader.

First robotic radical hysterectomy in Maryland performed at GBMC by Dr. Francis Grumbine.

GBMC offers single incision surgery, also known as laparoendoscopic single-site surgery ("LESS"), for select women with: fibroids, endometriosis, ovarian cysts, tubal ligation, hysterectomies, pelvic masses, removal of ovaries, and early-stage endometrial and ovarian cancers.

Mininimally Invasive Surgery:

Using state-of-the-art surgical technology, gynecologic surgeons at GBMC are offering more women the opportunity to undergo major abdominal surgery through tiny or even "scarless" incisions that are associated with dramatically speed up recovery and are associated with fewer complications when compared to surgery through larger incisions. There are many new surgical innovations recently available to women with benign or cancerous gynecologic problems that allow women to undergo major abdominal surgery through tiny incisions. These innovations include robotic surgery, cutting edge technology that allows a surgeon to operate robotic instruments and surgical arms from a remote console, and single port laparoscopic surgery, otherwise known as laparoendoscopic single-site surgery or "LESS".

Robotic surgery:

GBMC was one of the first hospitals in Maryland to perform robotic surgery and have offered it for gynecologic surgery since 2007. The da Vinci system allows the physician to operate through small, dime-sized abdominal incisions and direct robotic "arms" to perform the surgery with a variety of tiny surgical instruments. Seated at a console, the physician views the surgical area through a tiny, endoscopic camera that reveals three-dimensional images magnified 14 times greater than what the human eye can see. The controls at the console allow the physician to move the robotic "hands" with precision, eliminating the natural tremor of even the steadiest of human hands. This allows surgeons to offer more women a minimally invasive approach to performing a complex operation-even in the overweight or obese patient. Surgeries include cancer staging procedures for cervical, endometrial or ovarian cancer, hysterectomy for large or fibroid uteri, treatment of endometriosis and removal of pelvic masses.

LESS Procedures:

LESS is an advanced minimally invasive approach in which the surgeon operates almost exclusively through a single entry point, typically, the patient's navel. Potential advantages of LESS include better cosmetic results from a hidden scar at the base of the belly button (this surgical approach is called "scarless surgery" because patients can't see the incision at the base of the belly button once it has healed), less pain after surgery resulting in the need to use less pain medication, and quicker recovery from fewer incisions.

Dr. Amanda Nickles Fader, M.D. a gynecologic oncologist and minimally invasive surgeon at GBMC, is one of only a handful of gynecologic surgeons in the country trained in LESS procedures. This minimally invasive innovation has recently garnered significant interest across many medical fields, including urology, general surgery, colorectal surgery and gynecology. It remains one of the hottest topics in contemporary minimally invasive surgical research.

Over the last year, Dr. Fader and her colleagues at the Cleveland Clinic have published some of the first studies on the use of single port surgery for gynecologic procedures and have demonstrated that this surgical approach is safe and effective when used to treat a variety of gynecologic conditions including fibroids, endometriosis, pelvic pain, ovarian cysts and pelvic masses. As a gynecologic oncologist, a surgeon who specializes in treatment of precancerous and cancerous female diseases, Dr. Fader has focused her studies on utilizing LESS for women with precancerous conditions like cervical dysplasia, those with pelvic masses or large ovarian cysts, those women at high risk for ovarian cancer who may want their ovaries removed prophylactically to prevent cancer, and for surgeries to treat some early-stage endometrial and ovarian cancers.

Dr. Fader said, "In our first group of published studies, our preliminary data demonstrates that women who undergo single incision laparoscopies use little to no pain medicine after surgery, recover very quickly and are quite satisfied with the cosmetic outcomes because most women can't see their hidden surgical at the base of the belly button."

Primary Address
9 Schilling Road
Hunt Valley, MD 21031

Phone: (410) 771-9220
Fax: (410) 771-9301

Specialty Family Practice
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
GBMA-Mark Lamos & Associates

Insurance Accepted (GENERAL):
AETNA
AETNA GOLDEN CHOICE MEDICARE
AETNA GOLDEN MEDICARE
AMERIGROUP
AMERIGROUP AMERIVANTAGE (MEDICARE)
BCE EMERGIS
BEECHSTREET
BRAVO BY ELDER HEALTH
CARE COORDINATION PLUS (XL HEALTH)
CAREFIRST BCBS OF MD
CAREFIRST BLUE PRECISION
CAREFIRST BLUECHOICE
CAREFIRST BLUEPREFERRED
CCN
CHOICECARE/HUMANA
CIGNA
COVENTRY DIAMOND PLAN (MEDICAID)
COVENTRY HEALTHCARE OF DELAWARE
FIRST HEALTH
GREAT-WEST HEALTHCARE
INFORMED
JOHNS HOPKINS EMPLOYEE HEALTH PLAN
JOHNS HOPKINS PRIORITY PARTNERS
KAISER PERMANENTE
MARYLAND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE
MHIP (MARYLAND HEALTH INS PLAN)
MULTIPLAN
NCAS
NCPPO
NPN (NATIONAL PROVIDER NETWORK)
PHCS
PREFERRED PLAN
RAILROAD MEDICARE
TRICARE/CHAMPUS
UHC AMERICHOICE
UHC MDIPA
UHC MEDICARE (EVERCARE
MEDICARE)
UHC ONENET PPO
UHC OPTIMUM CHOICE
UHC PRIMARY ADULT CARE
UNITED HEALTHCARE
UNITED HEALTHCARE GOLDEN RULE
USA MCO INC