Medical School:

• Aga Khan Medical University, Pakistan

Internship:

• Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, VA (General Surgery).

Residency:

• Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, VA (General Surgery).

Fellowship:

• Virginia Commonwealth University Health System, Richmond, VA (Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery).

Certification:

• American Board of Surgery
• Pakistan Medical and Dental Council.

Societies, Organizations and Honors:

• American College of Surgeons
• American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
• Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
• Humera Surgical Society
• American Medical Association.

Research Interests:

• Energy expenditure in the morbidly obese
• Development of Minimally Invasive Surgery techniques in a Residency Program.

Selected Recent Publications:
Peer Reviewed Articles:

• MK Jamal, EJ DeMaria. Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding: Evolving clinical experience. Surg Clin North Am. 2005 Aug;85(4):773-87.
• MK Jamal, EJ DeMaria. Surgical options for obesity. Gastroenterol Clin North Am. 2005 Mar;34(1):127-42..
• MK Jamal, EJ DeMaria.Controversies in laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding. Surgical Clinics of North America – in press
• MK Jamal, SF Najjar, TA Miller, JF Savas. Colovesical fistula: spectrum of disease and diagnostic paradigm. Am J Surg. 2004 Nov;188(5):617-621.
• MK Jamal, TA Miller, JF Savas, R Lippman. Intra-abdominal malignant mesenchymoma: An unusual cause of abdominal mass and pain’. Contemp Surg. 2005 Jan;61(1):33-36.
• MK Jamal, EJ DeMaria, BJ Carmody, JM Johnson, LG Wolfe, JM Kellum, HJ Sugerman. The effect of major co-morbidities on mortality and complications after gastric bypass. Submitted to SOARD 2005 – in press.
• MK Jamal, EJ DeMaria, BJ Carmody, JM Johnson, LG Wolfe, JM Kellum, HJ Sugerman. Pre-operative dietary counseling does not improve outcome and increases drop-out rates in patients considering gastric bypass surgery for morbid obesity. Submitted to SOARD 2005 – in press.
• JM Johnson, MK Jamal, BJ Carmody, EJ DeMaria. Onlay hiatal reinforcement utilizing human acellular dermal matrix: 3 case series. Surgical Innovations 12:239-241, 2005.
• N Chaudhury, S Munim, MK Jamal, FA Khan. Outcome of abruptio placentae in normotensive and hypertensive patients in Aga Khan University Hospital, Pakistan. J Obstet Gynaecol Res. 1997 Jun; 23(3): 267-271.
• JM Johnson, AM Carbonell, MK Jamal, BJ Carmody, EJ DeMaria. Mesh hiatoplasty for paraesophageal hernias and fundoplications. Submitted to Surgical Endoscopy, 2005 – in press.
• BJ Carmody, MK Jamal, JM Johnson, AM Carbonell, EJ DeMaria. Internal hernia after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Submitted to SOARD 2005 – in press.

Book Chapters:

• MK Jamal, EJ DeMaria. Laparoscopic revision of gastric banding. Book chapter in Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery – Chapter 20, pp 167-173.
• MK Jamal, EJ DeMaria. Obesity Surgery. Book chapter in Surgical Attending Rounds – 3rd edition, Chapter 9, pp 138-149.
• MK Jamal, EJ DeMaria. Inguinal Hernias. Book chapter in Surgical Attending Rounds – 3rd edition, Chapter 20, pp 321-333.