Education
University of Texas at Austin, B.A. 1994
University of Texas Health Science Center, M.D. 1998
Personal
A native of Lubbock, Texas, Dr. Michael V. “Mickey” Seger attended college at The University of Texas at Austin, where he received a bachelor of arts in zoology. Upon graduation, he moved south to San Antonio to attend medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center.
He completed residency training at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
San Antonio bariatric surgeon, Dr. Seger completed an advanced laparoscopic fellowship at the University of Texas HSC Houston under the guidance of Philip L. Leggett, M.D.
In July of 2004, the Seger family moved back to San Antonio to join New Dimensions Weight Loss Surgery where he served as president in 2007.
With the addition of their twin girls in October 2007, Dr. Seger and his wife Jenny are the proud parents of five children.
Dr. Seger and Dr. Duperier founded the Minimally Invasive Surgeons of Texas advanced laparoscopic and bariatric surgery training program in San Antonio, where surgeons from around the country come to learn these highly specialized procedures.
San Antonio weight loss surgeon, Dr. Seger also performs a broad array of minimally invasive and robotic general surgery. Dr. Seger uses this technique to complete operations on the stomach, colon, intestine, spleen, kidney, pancreas, liver, gall bladder, and adrenal glands.
Dr. Seger has presented articles at national and international meetings on bariatric and laparoscopic surgery. Dr. Seger is a past president of the Texas Association of Bariatric Surgeons. He has served as the chief of surgery at the Methodist specialty and transplant hospital in San Antonio. He chairs the Access to Care committee for the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. He is a member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, Bexar County Medical Society, and the American Medical Association. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He has earned a focus practice designation in Bariatric surgery from the American Board of Surgery.
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