Dr. Rohit Patel is the Director of Cooper's Center for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery at Cooper University Healthcare. He has served in this capacity since 2011. His areas of expertise include general and minimally invasive surgery with a primary interest in all aspects of bariatric surgery. Dr. Patel is passionate about obesity care and population health. Coopers program is multidisciplinary and offers lifelong care for this complex disease. Dr. Patel is the associate program director for Coopers general surgery residency and the director of surgical simulation.