Karen McFarlane, M.D., earned her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Iowa Medical School. She is a fellow of the International College of Surgeons. She completed her surgical residency at Providence Hospital in Southfield, Michigan. She completed a fellowship at the Minnesota Institute for Minimally Invasive Surgery in Crosby, Minnesota. She performs general surgery, laparoscopic gastric sleeve, laparoscopic gastric band and Roux-en-Y bariatric surgical procedures, laparoscopic advanced surgery and flex-endo surgery. Dr. McFarlane is a member of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons and the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons. Clinical intersts include: Panniculectomy procedures, gastric band surgery and bariatric revisional procedures, Roux-en-y Gastric Bypass procedures, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, robotic surgery, bariatric surgery, laparoscopic surgery, laparoscopic weight loss surgery