Meet our Bariatric Surgeons
For your convenience, we offer free bariatric weight-loss surgery seminars in cities throughout our community. If you are between 18 and 65 years old, get the facts about weight-loss surgery from the hospital you trust.
Dr. Marc Zerey - Medical Director
Dr. Marc Zerey is a board-certified weight-loss specialist at Sansum Clinic, specializing in weight-loss surgery and advanced laparoscopic surgical techniques. He is certified with the American Board of Surgery and the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada.
He has published extensively in numerous medical journals, has co-authored chapters in two medical texts, and is a frequent lecturer on weight-loss surgery and other surgical topics.
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317 W. Pueblo St.
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
(805) 898-3140
Farida Bounoua, MD
Dr. Farida Bounoua, a board-certified general surgeon, completed her fellowship in bariatric and minimally invasive general surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The first female bariatric surgeon in Santa Barbara, she is a member of the American Society of Metabolic Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
She has published in many medical journals, and in 2001 she received the Merck Young Investigator Award for her outstanding contribution to research on insulin-induced growth in smooth-muscle vascular cells.
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2323 De La Vina St., Suite 207
Santa Barbara, CA 93105
805-879-4011
206 S. Stafford
Santa Maria, CA 93454
805-879-4011
David Thoman, MD
Before his arrival in 2004, Dr. David Thoman was director of minimally invasive surgery and the medical director of bariatrics at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, the world’s largest military hospital.
A board-certified specialist, Dr. Thoman was trained at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He also completed a fellowship in minimally invasive surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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520 W. Junipero St.
Santa Barbara, CA 93105-4212
805-730-1470
317 W. Pueblo St.
Santa Barbara, CA 93105-4365
805-898-3472
Robert Kanard, MD
Trained as a pediatric general surgeon, Dr. Bob Kanard has a special interest in bariatric surgery. His adult general surgical training in Louisville, Kentucky included significant bariatric surgery experience.
When Dr. Kanard began training in pediatric surgery at Children's National Medical Center, he discovered children also needed this life changing, and life saving, surgery. After completing his pediatric surgery training, Dr. Kanard worked as the director of adolescent bariatric surgery at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago.
In 2017, he and his family moved to Santa Barbara, where he became Director of Pediatric Surgery at Cottage Children's Medical Center. “Cottage Health supported my ongoing interest in providing metabolic and bariatric surgery to children suffering from obesity. At Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, we have built one of the few multidisciplinary comprehensive weight management and bariatric surgery clinics for children in the nation,” Dr. Kanard added.
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5333 Hollister Ave, Ste 250
Santa Barbara, CA 93111
2 James Way, Ste 112
Pismo Beach, CA 93449
