Dr. Iskandar, MD, FACS is a board-certified general surgeon with fellowship training in minimally invasive and bariatric surgery. He joined Baylor Scott & White in 2019 after spending most of his training and career in New York City. Dr. Iskandar received his medical degree from the American University of Beirut and completed a general surgery residency training at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York City. After obtaining a fellowship in minimally invasive and bariatric surgery from NYU-Langone in Brooklyn, he was appointed as an assistant professor of surgery at Mount Sinai School of Medicine where he practiced for several years.
Dr. Iskandar’s additional training allowed him to develop his skills and focus on his passion for bariatric surgery and complex abdominal wall reconstruction and hernia surgery. Under his leadership, Baylor Scott & White Center for Hernia Surgery was established for the management of simple to more challenging complex and recurrent hernias. Dr. Iskandar’s philosophy is to achieve durable and favorable outcomes by providing better patient preparation for surgery and by using innovative techniques and materials including robotic surgery.
Dr. Iskandar is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a Fellow of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, and a member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgery. He has several peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and presentations/abstracts in the field of hernia and bariatric surgery. In addition, he has been invited to medical conferences to present lectures on his specialty. Dr. Iskandar is fluent in English, French and Arabic.
Education
Medical School: American University Of Beirut-Lebanon (2008)
Education: American University of Beirut (2008)
Internship: General Surgery, American University of Beirut (2010)
Internship: General Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center (2011)
Residency: Surgery, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center (2015)
Fellowship: Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, NYU Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY (2016)