Ohio Bariatrics and Laparoscopy

David Schumacher, MD, FACS, FASMBS, is a board-certified general surgeon specializing in laparoscopic general surgery and surgical weight loss. He diagnoses and treats patients at Ohio Bariatrics and Laparoscopy in Miamisburg, Ohio. 

Dr. Schumacher is a pioneer in laparoscopic weight loss surgery and minimally invasive general surgeries, having performed these operations as early as 1992. Dr. Schumacher has always sought the newest procedures involving minimally invasive surgery. His mission has always been to seek the best possible options and provide the best care to improve the community’s health.

He graduated from residency at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in 1993 and joined a practice in Pennsylvania. He sought specialized training in laparoscopic approaches at the Minimally Invasive Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. 

Dr. Schumacher has always been at the leading edge of surgical innovation, particularly in laparoscopic procedures and bariatric surgery. From 1993 to 2000, Dr. Schumacher performed, lectured, and proctored laparoscopic approaches for reflux surgery, ventral hernias, appendectomies, intestinal resection, inguinal hernias, adrenalectomies, and liver ablation. 

The pinnacle in surgery for laparoscopy is bariatric surgery. He opened his first laparoscopic weight loss office in 2000 and became one of the first 200 surgeons in the United States to perform a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass with a laparoscope. Dr. Schumacher presented his findings on the safety of a laparoscopic approach in 2004 to the American Society for Bariatric Surgery (ASBS) at the national convention listed as “The Use of Intra-operative Endoscopy and the ‘Bubble Test’ to Prevent Leaks During Laparoscopic Roux-en-y Gastric Bypass.” 

In 2005, Dr. Schumacher was hired by Kettering Health Network to develop a laparoscopic bariatric practice. He began Kettering Bariatrics and was the Director of Bariatric Surgery from 2005 to 2019. Dr. Schumacher was paramount in developing a Center of Excellence, and the institution was awarded that distinction for all years at Kettering. In 2006, Dr. Schumacher was one of the first surgeons in the country to perform a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. He lectured and proctored surgeons across the country from 2006 to 2009, helping in the development of sleeve gastrectomy as an accepted covered benefit by most insurance carriers. After leaving Kettering in 2019, he developed a third bariatric practice at Norton-KDH Hospital in Madison, Indiana. He now has the opportunity to begin a private practice returning to the Dayton community.

Throughout the years, Dr. Schumacher has become the most experienced laparoscopic surgeon in Southwestern Ohio. In bariatrics alone, he has performed over 4000 bariatric cases, which have included laparoscopic procedures for gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, band placements, duodenal switch, SIPs procedures, conversion of sleeve to Roux, conversion of older procedures to more recent, and revisional surgery. He welcomes former patients, new patients, and transfer patients to his new practice, Ohio Bariatrics and Laparoscopy. Surgeries will be performed at Premier Health or Riverview Health Institute.