Stanley Hoehn, M.D., F.A.C.S.

Dr. Stanley Hoehn is a bariatric and weight loss surgeon located in and affiliated with Shawnee Mission. Dr. Hoehn has 16 years of experience performing Lap-Band and other weight loss surgery. Currently 123 of our members have Dr. Hoehn listed as their Lap Band Surgeon.

Dr. Hoehn is certified as an ASBS Bariatric Center of Excellence Surgeon. The Bariatric Center of Kansas City, along with Shawnee Mission Medical Center, have all been approved as a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence effective January 22, 2007. Dr. Stanley Hoehn received his undergraduate degree in Biology from Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska, and graduated from medical school from Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California. He completed his surgical residency and internship at the University of Kansas in 1999. Board Certified in General Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Dr. Hoehn is also a member of the American Society of Bariatric Surgery. Dr. Hoehn is the founding member of the Bariatric Center of Kansas City. He combines skills that he uses daily in his bariatric and general surgery practice to perform weight loss surgery at both Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, and Heartland Spine and Specialty Hospital in Overland Park, Kansas. Dr. Hoehn is currently Medical Director of the Weight Loss Surgery Program at Shawnee Mission Medical Center. He received specialized training in the fall of 2002 in San Diego, California from Drs. Wittgrove and Clark, founders of the laparoscopic technique for Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. He also trained with the InaMed Corporation, developer of the LapBand system, in the spring of 2004. Dr. Hoehn has performed over 2000 Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass procedures, over 2000 LapBand gastric banding procedures and over 400 Gastric Sleeve procedures. For the past 12 years, Dr. Hoehn has practiced in an advanced laparoscopic surgery practice in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Dr. Hoehn's goal is to provide surgical excellence within a compassionate atmosphere along with lifelong quality patient support.