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Elliott Jay Fegelman, MD

Elliott Jay Fegelman, MD is a native of Cincinnati, Ohio having graduated from Wyoming High School in 1978. He received his Bachelor degree in English from Denison University in Granville, Ohio where he was an All-American Swimmer. Dr. Fegelman completed his medical school training at Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio, followed by a six year surgical residency in General Surgery at the University of Cincinnati. During his residency he spent one year of training in gastrointestinal malignancies at The Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong, in the Department of Surgery of The University of Hong Kong. While attending medical school, Dr. Fegelman was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and received the Merck Award for Superior Academic Achievement. He was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame in 1992 at Denison University. During his residency, he was awarded the Max Zinninger Award for Outstanding Surgical Resident and the Resident Teaching Award.

Dr. Fegelman is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and is the Southwest District counselor for the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Surgeons. He is a current member of the Society of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons, Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Surgical Society where he is past-president.

Upon completion of his surgical training, Dr. Fegelman joined the Department of Surgery at the University of Cincinnati as an Assistant Professor of Surgery. He was appointed Director of Surgical Education at The Christ Hospital in 1994, a position he held until October of 2000 when he became Director of General Surgery, which ended June 2002. At that time he accepted his current position as Program Director and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the Jewish Hospital. Dr. Fegelman has been in the private practice of General Surgery with Cincinnati General Surgeons, Inc. since 1997. His primary surgical interests are in minimally invasive techniques for the management of gastrointestinal disease and of breast disease and bariatric surgery.

Dr. Fegelman is married to Suzanne Spicer Fegelman of Bethesda, MD. They have one son, Joseph, who was born in Hong Kong in 1991. He enjoys skiing in the winter and motorcycle riding in the summer.