Ben J Tribble, MD, FACS

Dr. Ben Tribble is a bariatric and weight loss surgeon located in and affiliated with Palmetto Baptist Medical Center. Dr. Tribble has 16 years of experience performing Lap-Band and other weight loss surgery. Currently 25 of our members have Dr. Tribble listed as their Lap Band Surgeon.

J. Benjamin Tribble, MD, earned his medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, and completed his general surgery residency at Wake Forest University Medical Center/Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He served as chief resident before joining South Carolina Surgical Associates in Columbia. Dr. Tribble is board certified in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is a past chief of surgery and chief of staff at Palmetto Health Baptist, and is a member of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, the American Medical Association, the Columbia Medical Society, the South Carolina Medical Association and the American Society for General Surgeons. Dr. Tribble's areas of special interest are laparoscopic surgery (including reflux and obesity surgery) and vascular surgery. He focuses on the treatment and management of morbid obesity at the Palmetto Health Weight Management Center, where he was one of the first physicians in the Midlands region to perform the weight-loss procedure laparoscopically.