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My staff is a very important part of my practice. They make my patients feel very warm, welcome, and very encouraging, without them my practice will not be where it is today and it is a big part of the recovery after bariatric surgery.

Hi, I am Dr. Thompson and I am the internal medicine physician here working with Dr. Barker and my role is to manage your blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol, and other medical issues.

I am Richard Toussaint. I am an anesthesiologist. I worked with Dr. Barker in the operating room. I put the patients to sleep for surgery and make them comfortable and wake them up comfortably as well.

My name is Bobby Nguyen. I am a registered nurse first assist. I will be assisting Dr. Barker in surgery and assure that your operation runs as smooth as possible and I will see you in the office for aftercare.

I am Earline and I am the office nurse and I assist Dr. Barker with patient care. I schedule the surgeries, get the precert from the insurance companies, as well as answer any questions pre and postoperatively for the patients, calling prescriptions and stuff like that.

I am Dale Gares and I am the insurance coordinator for Dr. Barker’s office. We basically prepare the patient’s criteria to get approval from the insurance company and we will do that without any cost to the patient.

I am Brittany Kirkpatrick. I do the preauthorization or certification for bariatric surgery. I work with patients to get them approved for surgery so that we can proceed.