Hospital and Academic affiliations and appointments

MelroseWakefield Healthcare, Melrose Wakefield Hospital, Melrose, MA

Attending surgeon
Past President of the Medical Staff

Tufts Medical School

Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery

Medical Society Memberships

American College of Surgeons
American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS)
Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES)
Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT)

Teaching

Dr. Sandor holds the appointment of Clinical Assistant Professor at Tufts Medical School and is actively involved in teaching medical students and surgery residents.

Education

Andras Sandor, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.S.M.B.S. was born in Budapest, Hungary and he obtained his medical diploma at the Semmelweis University of Budapest in 1992.

Research

After the initial surgical training at the Imre Haynal University of Health Sciences of Budapest, Dr. Sandor spent 3 years as a postdoctoral associate at the Department of Surgery of Yale Medical School studying the pathobiology of carcinoid tumors. Following this, he joined the then newly established UMASS EndoSurgery Center in 1997 and completed a 2 year research fellowship in advanced laparoscopic surgery. He served as Teaching Faculty in the Learning Center of the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) in 1998 and 1999.

Postgraduate training

Dr. Sandor completed his training in general surgery at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts. In the final year of his general surgical residency, Dr. Sandor served as Chief Resident in Surgery between 2003 and 2004.
Dr. Sandor also completed a clinical fellowship in Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery at the University of Massachusetts under the mentorship of Demetrius E.M. Litwin, M.D and John J. Kelly, M.D.

Board Certification

Dr. Sandor is Board Certified by the American Board of Surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.

Clinical interests

Robotic weight loss surgery

Dr. Sandor is the founder and director of the Commonwealth Surgical Associates Weight Loss Surgery Program, the predecessor of the Commonwealth Weight Loss Center. Dr. Sandor and the CSA Weight Loss Surgery Program were designated a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.  The Center of Excellence accreditation is no longer applied to surgeons or surgical prectices, only hospitals and is now  transitioned into the MBSAQUIP - Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program.
The Commonwealth Weight Loss Center is now part of Tufts Medical Center Community Care. We currently offer robotic Roux-Y gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, various revisional surgeries for severe heartburn or weight gain following sleeve gastrectomy and removal of gastric bands for various problems (heartburn, frequent vomiting, weight gain).

Advanced minimally invasive surgery

In addition to robotic bariatric surgery, Dr. Sandor's current areas of interest is focused on the following  procedures:
Robotic splenectomy, adrenalectomy, antireflux procedures, hiatal hernia repair, robotic ventral, incisional and inguinal hernia repair, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, laparoscopic common bile duct exploration, laparoscopic feeding tube placement and robotic/laparoscopic small and large bowel surgery.
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