East Cooper doctor earns bariatric surgery designation

Dr. Morris Washington, a bariatric surgeon with East Cooper Bariatric Surgery, recently obtained a Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Focus Practice Designation from the American Board of Surgery.

Washington is among the first surgeons to receive this designation as the American Board of Surgery offered the exam for the first time in April 2022. Bariatric surgeons perform procedures that help treat patients with obesity and obesity-related conditions.

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