Bhavani Pokala

I am a Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgeon practicing in Fort Wayne, IN at Parkview Health. I attended the 6-year BA/MD program at University of Missouri – Kansas City and subsequently completed general surgery residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. I completed my MIS/Bariatrics fellowship training at Indiana University in 2022. I was recruited to Parkview Health to found our robotic bariatric surgery program and serve as core teaching faculty for their foundational general surgery residency program. I also serve as a Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine. My special interests include multidisciplinary approach to weight regain/inadequate weight loss post-bariatric surgery, surgical management of benign foregut disease, revisional bariatric surgery, and surgical simulation training. My research interests include bariatric surgery outcomes, surgical education, healthcare cost and quality improvement.