Stratford, NJ – Marc A. Neff, MD, FACS, has been named Medical Director of the Kennedy University Hospital Bariatric Surgery Program at Stratford. In this role, Dr. Neff oversees the clinical operations of the program, which recently was accredited by the Bariatric Surgery Center Network (BSCN) Accreditation Program of the American College of Surgeons. 

Dr. Neff is a 1996 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.  After completing a five-year General Surgery residency at York Hospital in York, PA, in 2001, he went on to do a two-year Fellowship in Minimally Invasive Surgery at St. Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ. There, Dr. Neff trained under recent Past President of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, Dr. W. Peter Geis; and recent Past President of the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Dr. Robert Brolin. 

Since Kennedy’s Bariatric Surgery Program was established in January 2007 at its Stratford hospital, more than 200 patients have successfully undergone weight-loss surgery.  Since inception of the program, Kennedy has had a focus on personal interaction with patients.  For more information about Kennedy’s Bariatric Surgery Program, please call 856/346-6470.

More than 17 million people suffer from severe obesity in the United States, and the numbers continue to increase.  Obesity increases the risks of morbidity and mortality because of diseases and conditions commonly associated with it, including Type II diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease, among other health risks.  Currently, weight-loss surgery provides the only effective, lasting relief from severe obesity.