Dr. Jossart graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School in 1991 where he was awarded the Undergraduate Student Research Award. He completed his general surgical training at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School from 1991-1998. During that time he completed a two-year fellowship in Endocrine Surgery under the direction of Orlo Clark, MD. He then completed a fellowship in Laparoscopic Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York under the direction of Michel Gagner, MD and Barry Salky, MD. He returned to San Francisco in 1999 to become the Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery at California Pacific Medical Center.

Dr. Jossart is a Diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is a member of SAGES, SSAT, AMA and the ASBS. Since 1998, Dr. Jossart has limited his practice to Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery, Needlescopic Surgery, Endocrine Surgery and Laparoscopic Surgery for Morbid Obesity. He has initiated and pioneered several new procedures in laparoscopic surgery, including the Laparoscopic Duodenal Switch procedure for morbid obesity; Laparoscopic Gastric Pacemaker for gastroparesis; and Laparoscopic placement of a hepatic arterial infusion system for colorectal liver metastasis. He has authored numerous articles on these subjects and welcomes you to review the list of publications, chapters, videos and presentations. Dr. Jossart has been performing Bariatric surgery for the past six years successfully and started performing Laparoscopic Adjustable Lap-Band surgery after the FDA approved the surgery here in the U.S. in June of 2001. He has successfully completed hundreds of gastric banding procedures in the past three years.