Ashwini Poola, M.D.

My philosophy, as a surgeon, is providing excellent comprehensive care for my patients. I strongly believe in a collaborative approach where there is an open dialogue between patients and their families, other healthcare professionals and me. Beyond my bread-and-butter general surgical practice, my clinical focus is metabolic and bariatric surgery and benign diseases of the foregut.

I have a passion for robotic surgery and am a strong advocate in using minimally invasive approaches in elective, emergent and complex surgical care.

Although I am a native of the Northeast, through my training I have spent a large fraction of my life in the Midwest, I have a penchant for travel, and I am always on a quest for food, laughter and sunshine. My current, and arguably my greatest, adventure is rediscovering the world through my infant's eyes.

Education

• University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine

Internship

• General Surgery, Baystate Medical Center

Residency

• General Surgery, Baystate Medical Center

Fellowships

• Advanced GI/Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Multicare Health System
• Pediatric Surgical Scholar, Surgery, Mercy Hospitals and Clinics

Certification

• General Surgery, American Board of Surgery

Memberships

• American College of Surgeons
• American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
• Association of Women Surgeons
• Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons

• Foregut surgery, such as paraesophageal and hiatal hernia, reflux, achalasia, and conditions of the stomach and esophagus
• Metabolic and bariatric surgery, also known as weight-loss surgery
• Minimally invasive surgery, such as robotic and laparoscopic surgery, for hernia and gallbladder conditions and colon surgery

• Reoperative surgery after magnetic sphincter augmentation, June 2023.
• Ambulatory colectomy: a pathway for advancing the enhanced recovery protocol, November 2022.
• Ambulatory colectomy: A pilot protocol for same day discharge in minimally invasive surgery, August 2022.
• Clinical feasibility of same day discharge in foregut surgery, November 2021.
• "Robotic paraconduit hernia" in The Atlas of Robotic Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, November 2021.