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I am Dr. Champion. I am a Board Certified General Surgeon. My practice is limited to bariatric surgery. I first began doing bariatric surgery in 1976 and in 1995 I was one of the first surgeon's in the country to begin doing laparoscopic approaches for weight loss. We currently limit our practice to bariatric surgery. I first became interested in bariatric surgery when I was a surgical resident and was assigned the surgery as a research project. In practice here in Atlanta, we were doing a great deal of surgery for acid reflux for which the Roux-en-Y was originally done early in the century, so we gradually began doing gastric bypass for reflux. As that became more popular, word spread and patients began coming to me asking me to do that for weight reduction. We began that in 1995 and it has blossomed since then to the point that that’s all we do in our practice.