Medical Services

GENERAL SURGERY

Cleared for general laparoscopic procedures, the da Vinci® Surgical System is designed to enable general surgeons to perform many abdominal laparoscopic procedures such as:

• Treatment of chronic reflux disease or Gastroesophageal reflux (GERD)
• Gastric bypass for obesity (also known as Bariatric Surgery)
• Heller myotomy to treat achalasia (a rare disease of the muscle of the esophagus)
• Abdominal aortic artery surgery
• Adrenalectomy

Our robotic general surgeon :

Adam Kopelan, MD

Board Certified in General Surgery, Dr. Kopelan completed his surgical residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey – Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. He is a graduate of Gettysburg College and received his medical education at New York University School of Medicine.

Dr. Kopelan has been acknowledged with numerous accolades, including graduating Magna Cum Laude and receiving honors in the Department of Biology from Gettysburg College, being recognized with the University of Chicago’s Robert Baker Golden Apple Teaching Award and the Golden Apple Teaching Award from Monmouth Medical Center. He has co-authored a variety of articles that have appeared in medical books and journals such as Transplantation; Kidney Transplantation: Principles and Practice; Transplantation Proceedings and the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia.

Dr. Kopelan resides in South Orange, New Jersey with his wife and two children and is in private practice at Millburn Surgical Associates.

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