Evangelical Community Hospital Welcomes Bariatric and Foregut Specialist Jon Gabrielsen, MD, FASMBS

Evangelical Community Hospital is pleased to welcome Jon Gabrielsen, MD, FASMBS, Bariatric and Foregut Specialist, to the Bariatric Center of Evangelical. Dr. Gabrielsen will begin seeing patients in August 2022.  

As a general surgeon specializing in bariatric and foregut surgery, Dr. Gabrielsen performs a variety of minimally invasive gastrointestinal surgeries including procedures designed to help patients lose weight safely and effectively as well as procedures to correct hiatal hernias and treat refractory reflux disease.

Practicing in general surgery since 2003, Dr. Gabrielsen has been focused on bariatrics as a specialty for 15 years. He joins Christopher Motto, MD, FACS, at the Bariatric Center of Evangelical, to assist patients who have been classified as obese and who have struggled unsuccessfully to lose weight through diet and exercise to achieve lifechanging results through bariatric surgery.

Dr. Gabrielsen received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the Indiana School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Ind. He completed his General Surgery Residency at Iowa Methodist Medical Center, Des Moines, Iowa and his Minimally invasive Surgery Fellowship at Geisinger Medical Center Danville. He is board certified in General Surgery.

Prior to Evangelical, Dr. Gabrielsen, served at Geisinger Medical Center in the Department of General Surgery in the section of Bariatric and Foregut Surgery.

Dr. Gabrielsen is accepting new patients at the Bariatric Center of Evangelical. To learn more call 570-523-3290.