Our Comprehensive Program
At Atlanta Bariatrics we are dedicated to providing the highest quality of surgical weight loss management in a caring and compassionate setting. You will have the time to explore the options best for you and make a carefully considered, informed decision. As a result of our extensive bariatric experience, we are able to provide multiple surgical options to our patients, including laparoscopic gastric bypass, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, LAP-BAND, and band plication.
However, we believe that surgery is only one part of a comprehensive plan to help you lose weight and become healthier. That is why our expert, friendly staff offers regular support groups, personal attention from a Registered Dietician, advice and availability of exercise classes, informative seminars and more.
Our Doctors
Christopher J. Hart, MD, FACS
is the Chief of Staff of Emory Johns Creek Hospital and serves as the Medical Director of the Atlanta Bariatric Center at Emory Johns Creek Hospital. Prior to founding Johns Creek Surgery/Atlanta Bariatrics he served as Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Emory University School of Medicine and was a founding member of the Emory bariatric program.
He is a native of Atlanta. After graduating from Vanderbilt University, Dr Hart attended medical school at the University of Alabama – Birmingham. He performed his surgical residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, finishing as Chief Resident in Surgery. Dr Hart has been practicing surgery in the Atlanta area for over 15 years.
Dr Hart has been named one of America’s Top Surgeons by the Consumers Research Council of America and was chosen by his peers as one of Atlanta’s Top Doctors. He has taught courses on the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative management of bariatric patients, as well as taught and proctored other surgeons on new techniques in weight loss surgery.
Dr Hart is a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners, is Board Certified by the American Board of Surgery, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the Southeastern Surgical Congress. He is recognized as a Center of Excellence surgeon by the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. He is a member of many other medical and surgical societies, including the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, and the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. Dr Hart is the President-Elect of the Mayo Clinic surgical society – the Priestley Society. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the Emory Johns Creek Hospital and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Emory Clinically Integrated Network.
William H. Johnson, MD, FACS
grew up in Florida and South Carolina, and attended medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina. He completed his general surgery residency and was Chief Resident in Surgery at the University of Florida.
He then completed a fellowship at Duke University in advanced laparoscopy and Bariatric surgery and was on staff at Duke University Hospital. He moved to Atlanta in 2006 when he joined Atlanta Bariatrics. Dr. Johnson is certified through the National Board of Medical Examiners and is Board Certified by the American Board of Surgery. He is recognized as a Center of Excellence surgeon by the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), and has performed over a thousand bariatric procedures.
He is a member of many national medical and surgical societies including the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, the American Medical Association, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS).
Dr. Johnson is Chief of General Surgery and vice-Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Emory Johns Creek Hospital. He operates at Emory Johns Creek Hospital and Northside Forsyth Hospital, where he helped launch the Bariatric program. He has written multiple papers on the surgical treatment of obesity which have been presented at national meetings and published in medical and surgical journals. He has also taught courses on the treatment and care of weight-loss surgery patients, as well as new technologies in Bariatric and General Surgery including single-incision surgery. He was the first surgeon in the area to pioneer single-incision surgery for Lap Band, sleeve gastrectomy and various general surgery cases including removal of the gallbladder and appendix.
