AnitaPaulineCourcoulasMDMPH

General Surgery • Pittsburgh, PA

Bariatric Surgery

Professor of Surgery Chief, Minimally Invasive Bariatric & General Surgery

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Office
Craft Place
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone+1 412-641-3632
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Education & Training

UPMC Medical Education (Pittsburgh)Residency, Surgery, 1988 - 1995
Boston University School of MedicineClass of 1988
Brown UniversityBS, 1979 - 1983

Certifications & Licensure

PA State Medical License 1990 - 2024
American Board of Surgery Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

America's Top Doctors Castle Connolly, 2009-2014
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2011
Pittsburgh Magazine Castle Connolly, 2008-2011
Fellow (FACS) American College of Surgeons
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Clinical Trials

Long-term Effects of Bariatric Surgery Start of enrollment: 2006 Mar 01
Completed
Teen-Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (Teen-LABS) Adolescent Bariatrics: Assessing Health Benefits and Risk Start of enrollment: 2007 Mar 01
Active, not recruiting
StomaphyX Versus Sham for Revisional Surgery in Post-Roux-en-Y Patients to Reduce Regained Weight Start of enrollment: 2009 Jul 01
Terminated
Not Applicable
The TRIABETES - ARMMS-T2D Study: A Randomized Trial to Compare Surgical and Medical Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes Start of enrollment: 2009 Sep 01
Active, not recruiting
Not Applicable
Intestinal Metabolic Reprogramming as a Key Mechanism of Gastric Bypass in Humans Start of enrollment: 2016 Feb 01
Active, not recruiting
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

2 citations
Long-Term Outcomes of Medical Management vs Bariatric Surgery in Type 2 Diabetes.
Anita P Courcoulas, Mary Elizabeth Patti, Bo Hu, David E Arterburn, Donald C Simonson, William F Gourash, John M Jakicic, Ashley H Vernon, Gerald J Beck, Philip R Scha...> ;JAMA. 2024 Feb 27
Long term outcomes of metabolic/bariatric surgery in adults.
Daigle, C., Arterburn, D., Courcoulas, A.> ;BMJ. 2023 Dec 18
2 citations
Barriers to Bariatric Surgery: a Mixed Methods Study Investigating Obstacles Between Clinic Contact and Surgery.
Callie Hlavin, Romano S Sebastiani, Robert J Scherer, Tanya Kenkre, Karla Bernardi, Douglas A Reed, Bestoun Ahmed, Anita Courcoulas> ;Obesity Surgery. 2023 Sep 1
Author Correction: A single-cell atlas of human and mouse white adipose tissue.
Margo P Emont, Christopher Jacobs, Adam L Essene, Deepti Pant, Danielle Tenen, Georgia Colleluori, Angelica Di Vincenzo, Anja M Jørgensen, Hesam Dashti, Adam Stefek, E...> ;Nature. 2023 Aug 1
2 citations
Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes of Pregnancy within 7 years after Roux-Y Gastric Bypass or Sleeve Gastrectomy Surgery.
Gretchen E White, Anita P Courcoulas, Nicholas T Broskey, Sarah C Rogan, Arun Jeyabalan, Wendy C King> ;Obesity Surgery. 2023 Jun 1
New indications for metabolic and bariatric surgery.
Anita P Courcoulas> ;The Lancet. Diabetes & Endocrinology. 2023 Mar 1
4 citations
Clinical Outcomes and Hospital Utilization Among Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery With Telemedicine Preoperative Care.
Callie Hlavin, Phoebe Ingraham, Tamara Byrd, Nathan Hyre, Lucine Gabriel, Nishant Agrawal, Laura Allen, Tanya Kenkre, Andrew Watson, Murat Kaynar, Bestoun Ahmed, Anita...> ;JAMA Network Open. 2023 Feb 1
3 citations
Identifying barriers to shared decision-making about bariatric surgery in two large health systems.
David Arterburn, Leah Tuzzio, Jane Anau, Cara C Lewis, Neely Williams, Anita Courcoulas, Diana Stilwell, Ali Tavakkoli, Bestoun Ahmed, Margie Wilcox, Gary S Fischer, K...> ;Obesity. 2023 Feb 1
1 citations
Gut adaptation after gastric bypass in humans reveals metabolically significant shift in fuel metabolism.
Margaret A Stefater-Richards, Courtney Panciotti, Henry A Feldman, William F Gourash, Eleanor Shirley, John N Hutchinson, Lena Golick, Sang W Park, Anita P Courcoulas,...> ;Obesity. 2023 Jan 1
4 citations
A Prospective Cohort of Alcohol Use and Alcohol-related Problems Before and After Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery in Adolescents.
Gretchen E White, Richard E Boles, Anita P Courcoulas, Susan Z Yanovski, Meg H Zeller, Todd M Jenkins, Thomas H Inge> ;Annals of Surgery. 2023 Sep 1
8 citations
Remission and Relapse of Dyslipidemia After Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy vs Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Population.
Karen J Coleman, Anirban Basu, Lee J Barton, Heidi Fischer, David E Arterburn, Douglas Barthold, Anita Courcoulas, Cecelia L Crawford, Benjamin B Kim, Peter N Fedorka,...> ;JAMA Network Open. 2022 Sep 1
34 citations
Diabetes Remission in the Alliance of Randomized Trials of Medicine Versus Metabolic Surgery in Type 2 Diabetes (ARMMS-T2D).
John P Kirwan, Anita P Courcoulas, David E Cummings, Allison B Goldfine, Sangeeta R Kashyap, Donald C Simonson, David E Arterburn, William F Gourash, Ashley H Vernon, ...> ;Diabetes Care. 2022 Jul 7
3 citations
Alliance of Randomized Trials of Medicine vs Metabolic Surgery in Type 2 Diabetes (ARMMS-T2D): Study rationale, design, and methods.
Donald C Simonson, Bo Hu, David E Arterburn, Philip R Schauer, Sangeeta R Kashyap, Anita P Courcoulas, David E Cummings, Mary-Elizabeth Patti, William F Gourash, Ashle...> ;Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism. 2022 Jul 1
9 citations
Bariatric Surgery and Cancer Risk.
Anita P Courcoulas> ;JAMA. 2022 Jun 28
2 citations
Comparative effectiveness of gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy on predicted 10-year risk of cardiovascular disease 5 years after surgery.
Anirban Basu, Lee J Barton, Heidi Fischer, Kristi Reynolds, David E Arterburn, Douglas Barthold, Anita Courcoulas, Cecelia L Crawford, Peter N Fedorka, Benjamin B Kim,...> ;Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 2022 Jun 1
2 citations
Remission and Relapse of Hypertension After Bariatric Surgery: A Retrospective Study on Long-Term Outcomes.
David P Fisher, Liyan Liu, David Arterburn, Karen J Coleman, Anita Courcoulas, Sebastien Haneuse, Eric Johnson, Robert A Li, Mary Kay Theis, Brianna Taylor, Heidi Fisc...> ;Annals of Surgery Open. 2022 Jun 1
Validity of dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry for estimation of visceral adipose tissue and visceral adipose tissue change after surgery-induced weight loss in women wi...
Maxine Ashby-Thompson, Stanley Heshka, Bridgette Rizkalla, Thaisa Lemos, Isaiah Janumala, Bret Goodpaster, James DeLany, Anita Courcoulas, Gladys Strain, Alfons Pomp, ...> ;Obesity. 2022 May 1
Change in C-reactive protein after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass through 7 years of follow-up.
Amanda S Hinerman, Emma J M Barinas-Mitchell, Samar R El Khoudary, Anita P Courcoulas, Abdus S Wahed, Wendy C King> ;Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 2022 Jul 1
197 citations
A single-cell atlas of human and mouse white adipose tissue.
Margo P Emont, Christopher Jacobs, Adam L Essene, Deepti Pant, Danielle Tenen, Georgia Colleluori, Angelica Di Vincenzo, Anja M Jørgensen, Hesam Dashti, Adam Stefek, E...> ;Nature. 2022 Mar 1
Surrogate Measures for Comparative Effectiveness Between 2 Bariatric Surgical Procedures.
Anita P Courcoulas, Bestoun H Ahmed> ;JAMA Surgery. 2022 Mar 1
1 citations
Preoperative Depression Status and 5 Year Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Outcomes in the PCORnet Bariatric Study Cohort.
Janelle W Coughlin, Elizabeth Nauman, Robert Wellman, R Yates Coley, Kathleen M McTigue, Karen J Coleman, Daniel B Jones, Kristina H Lewis, Jonathan N Tobin, Christina...> ;Annals of Surgery. 2023 Apr 1
2 citations
5-year Attrition, Active Enrollment, and Predictors of Level of Participation in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (LABS-2) Study
William Gourash, Wendy C. King, Eleanor Shirley, Amanda Hinerman, Faith Ebel, Alfons Pomp, Walter J. Pories, Anita P. Courcoulas> ;Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 2021 Nov 27
Compared to What?-Novel Methods to Approach Randomization for Long-term Bariatric Surgery Outcomes
Anita P. Courcoulas, Bestoun Ahmed> ;JAMA Surgery. 2021 Oct 6
21 citations
Minimum Threshold of Bariatric Surgical Weight Loss for Initial Diabetes Remission.
Douglas Barthold, Elizabeth Brouwer, Lee J Barton, David Arterburn, Anirban Basu, Anita P. Courcoulas, Cecelia L. Crawford, Peter N. Fedorka, Heidi Fischer, Benjamin K...> ;Diabetes Care. 2021 Sep 13
14 citations
Reduction in Long-term Mortality after Sleeve Gastrectomy and Gastric Bypass Compared to Non-surgical Patients with Severe Obesity.
Anita P Courcoulas, Eric L. Johnson, David Arterburn, Sebastien Haneuse, Lisa J. Herrinton, David Fisher, Robert A Li, Mary Kay Theis, Liyan Liu, Brianna Taylor, Julie...> ;Annals of Surgery. 2021 Aug 13
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Journal Articles

Association of Obesity Subtypes in the Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery Study and 3‐Year Postoperative Weight Change
Thomas H Inge, Bruce Wolfe, Alfons Pomp, Anita P Courcoulas, Konstantinos Spaniolas, Gregory F Dakin, Walter J Pories, Obesity
Comparison of the Performance of Common Measures of Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgery for Association with Clinical Outcomes
Anita Courcoulas, MD, JAMA

Press Mentions

Fewer Deaths After Sleeve Gastrectomy Versus Gastric BypassOctober 6th, 2021
Even More Evidence to Support Lower Mortality After Metabolic SurgerySeptember 7th, 2021
Gastric Bypass Surgery Leads to Long-Term Diabetes RemissionNovember 30th, 2020
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Grant Support

Effect Of Bariatric Surgery On Insulin Resistance &CvdNational Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases2004–2011
A Randomized Trial To Compare Surgical And Medical Treatments For Type 2 DiabetesNational Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases2009–2010
Effect Of Bariatric Surgery On Insulin Resistance And CVDNational Institute Of Diabetes And Digestive And Kidney Diseases2007