Dr. Robert Woodbury 

Dr. Robert Woodbury is the Medical Director of Healthy Steps Weight Loss Center. He attended medical school at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Services, Bethesda, graduating in 1992, and completed a surgery internship at the Naval Medical Center, San Diego. After internship, he served a tour as a general medical officer with the U.S Marines before returning to complete general surgery residency in 1999. He was stationed at Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, sent to the Persian Gulf in peacetime, and spent the last four years as surgical teaching faculty at Naval Medical Center, San Diego. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Surgery in 2002, and was deployed in support of combat operations against Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003. He left active service in May 2004.

Dr. Woodbury has extensive laparoscopic and bariatric surgery training. He is well versed in laparoscopic anti-reflux surgery, common bile duct exploration, and laparoscopic surgery of the colon, spleen, and hernia. He received additional post residency training at Scripps Clinic, Green Hospital in pancreatic and gastrointestinal surgery. As part of his residency, Dr Woodbury received training in bariatric surgery with Pacific Bariatric, in San Diego, focusing on Roux Y Gastric Bypass.

Dr. Woodbury  is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, and member of American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery as well as the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons.  He holds academic appointments as an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine and University of California San Francisco.