Wellstar General Surgery

Dr. L. Renee Hilton-Rowe is an Associate Professor at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University Medical Center. She is the Section Chief of Minimally Invasive Surgery and the Director of the Center of Obesity and Metabolism at Augusta University. She is the past ASMBS State Access to Care Representative for the state of Georgia and is currently serving as the immediate past president of the Georgia ASMBS state chapter. She is the Access to Care Committee Chair for ASMBS. She is also a board member for the ASMBSPAC Board of Directors. She is the current Women Surgeons Chair, Georgia Society American College of Surgeons. She serves on numerous other committees within ASMBS as well as SAGES. She was recently named Surgical Quality Officer for Wellstar Medical College of Georgia.

She completed her general surgery residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital at the University of Miami and then fellowship in bariatric and minimally invasive surgery at Yale University. She serves in multiple leadership roles within the surgery department at Wellstar MCG Health Medical Center in addition to being section chief of MIS. She is also a Longitudinal Career Advisor for the Medical College of Georgia and currently advises over 150 medical students.

Her main professional and scientific interests focus on access to care, advocacy, minimally invasive surgery of the foregut, bariatric surgery, complex reoperative bariatric surgery, adolescent bariatric surgery, women’s health and obesity, racial disparities in bariatric and minimally invasive surgery, abdominal wall reconstruction, and achalasia.

She currently resides and practices in Augusta, Georgia. She enjoys spending time with her family, hiking, skiing, boating, traveling and pretty much any activity that involves the outdoors.