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Ashwini Poola, M.D.
Appointment Information
Mankato, MN
Hospital and Clinic
1025 Marsh St., Mankato, MN 56001Madison East Health Center
1400 Madison Ave., Suite 100AA, Mankato, MN 56001Provider's Bio
My philosophy, as a surgeon, is providing excellent comprehensive care for my patients. I strongly believe in a collaborative approach where there is an open dialogue between patients and their families, other healthcare professionals and me. Beyond my bread-and-butter general surgical practice, my clinical focus is metabolic and bariatric surgery and benign diseases of the foregut.
I have a passion for robotic surgery and am a strong advocate in using minimally invasive approaches in elective, emergent and complex surgical care.
Although I am a native of the Northeast, through my training I have spent a large fraction of my life in the Midwest, I have a penchant for travel, and I am always on a quest for food, laughter and sunshine. My current, and arguably my greatest, adventure is rediscovering the world through my infant's eyes.
Training & Credentials
Education
- University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Internship
- General Surgery, Baystate Medical Center
Residency
- General Surgery, Baystate Medical Center
Fellowships
- Advanced GI/Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Multicare Health System
- Pediatric Surgical Scholar, Surgery, Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
Certification
- General Surgery, American Board of Surgery
Memberships
- American College of Surgeons
- American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
- Association of Women Surgeons
- Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
Special Interests
- Foregut surgery, such as paraesophageal and hiatal hernia, reflux, achalasia, and conditions of the stomach and esophagus
- Metabolic and bariatric surgery, also known as weight-loss surgery
- Minimally invasive surgery, such as robotic and laparoscopic surgery, for hernia and gallbladder conditions and colon surgery
Research & Publications
- Reoperative surgery after magnetic sphincter augmentation, June 2023.
- Ambulatory colectomy: a pathway for advancing the enhanced recovery protocol, November 2022.
- Ambulatory colectomy: A pilot protocol for same day discharge in minimally invasive surgery, August 2022.
- Clinical feasibility of same day discharge in foregut surgery, November 2021.
- "Robotic paraconduit hernia" in The Atlas of Robotic Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery, November 2021.