Francesco Rubino, M.D.

Francesco Rubino, MD, is Chief of Gastrointestinal Metabolic Surgery and an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College. He is an Assistant Attending Surgeon at New York-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Rubino is a world-renowned pioneer of surgery for type 2 diabetes, an emerging specialty which holds great promise for diabetics-- for the first time bringing diabetes type 2 into long term remission. Dr. Rubino is heading up the Diabetes Surgery Center at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical College, the first academic-based Diabetes Surgery Center.