Dr. David Diaz, MD, FACS, FASMBS, Surgeon
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Dr. David Diaz, MD, FACS, FASMBS

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13430 N Meridian St Suite 275 Carmel IN, 46032
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Dr. David Diaz is a general surgeon practicing in Carmel, IN. Dr. Diaz specializes in abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas and often thyroid glands. General surgeons are able to deal with almost any surgical or critical care emergency, also involving the skin or soft tissue trauma. Dr. Diaz provides quality surgical service for gravely ill or injured patients and is able to respond quickly due to knowledge of various surgical procedures.

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13430 N Meridian St Suite 275 -
Carmel, IN 46032
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11725 N Illinois St Suite 240 -
Carmel, IN 46032
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Get to know General and Bariatric Surgeon Dr. David Diaz, who serves patients in Carmel, Indiana.

Dr. Diaz is a general and bariatric surgeon, who specializes in all types of laparoscopic bariatric procedures and follow-up care. Fluent in both English and Spanish, he is in practice with Meridian Surgical Group in Carmel, Indiana. 

The surgeons working at Meridian Surgical Group perform a wide variety of general, bariatric, and laparoscopic surgical procedures. They provide surgical patients throughout Indiana a multidisciplinary approach to long-term weight loss.

A Florida native, Dr. Diaz is a graduate of the University of Miami and the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. He completed his residency in general surgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida. 

In addition to being a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, he is board-certified through the American Board of Surgery (ABS). The mission of the ABS is to serve the public and the specialty of surgery by providing leadership in surgical education and practice, by promoting excellence through rigorous evaluation and examination, and by promoting the highest standards for professionalism, lifelong learning, and the continuous certification of surgeons in practice.

General surgery is a surgical specialty that focuses on abdominal contents including the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, appendix and bile ducts, and often the thyroid gland. A general surgeon performs a wide range of abdominal surgeries for many forms of intestinal and abdominal wall neoplasms, gallbladder disease, gastric and pancreatic disease. They follow the patient through critical care and surgical recovery all the way to outpatient care. 

Bariatric surgery includes a variety of procedures performed on people who have obesity. Weight loss is achieved by reducing the size of the stomach with a gastric band or through the removal of a portion of the stomach or by resecting and re-routing the small intestine to a small stomach pouch. Surgeons who perform these types of procedures are referred to as bariatric surgeons. 

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