JamesGMcDowellJr.MDFACS, FASMBS

General Surgery • Springfield, TN

Bariatric Surgery

Chief Department of Surgery St. Thomas West Hospital Nashville TN Surgeon/ Partner The Surgical Clinic PLLC Nashville Tennessee

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Office
417 Northcrest Dr
Springfield, TN 37172
Phone+1 615-384-8211

Fax+1 615-384-8211

Education & Training

Vanderbilt University Medical CenterResidency, Surgery, 1998 - 2004
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San AntonioClass of 1998

Certifications & Licensure

TN State Medical License 2002 - 2026
American Board of Surgery Surgery

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

President Nashville Surgical Society, 2013
CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification eClinicalWorks EHR, eClinicalWorks LLC, 2012-2013
Top MD Consumers Checkbook
Fellow American College of Surgeons
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

40 citations
Gastrointestinal symptoms are more intense in morbidly obese patients.
Allen Foster, William O. Richards, James McDowell, H. L. Laws, Ronald H. Clements
Surgical Endoscopy. 2003-06-19
79 citations
Gastrointestinal symptoms are more intense in morbidly obese patients and are improved with laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.
Ronald H. Clements, Quintín H González, Allen Foster, William O. Richards, James McDowell
Obesity Surgery. 2003-08-01
2 citations
Biomagnetic Detection of Injury Currents in Rabbit Ischemic Intestine
L. Alan Bradshaw, Ornob P. Roy, Gavin P. O’Mahony, Andrew G. Myers, James McDowell
Digestive Diseases and Sciences. 2005-09-01

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