William Barlow Inabnet III, MD MHA FACS

Dr William B. Inabnet, III, is the Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine; previously, her served as the Eugene W. Friedman, MD, Professor of Surgery, the Surgical Director of the Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He also served as the Chief of Endocrine Surgery for the 8 hospital Mount Sinai Health System. Dr Inabnet attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received his undergraduate and medical school education. He completed his residency in general surgery with Dr Richard Prinz at Rush Medical College and Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago, IL. Dr Inabnet then completed a fellowship in endocrine surgery at Cochin Hospital in Paris, France where he trained under Professor Yves Chapuis, a world leader in the field of endocrine surgery and targeted parathyroidectomy. An international authority in the field of minimally invasive endocrine surgery, Dr Inabnet has pioneered new techniques in minimal access endocrine neck surgery as well as adrenal and pancreatic surgery. In 1998, he helped perform the first endoscopic thyroid resection in the United States and has helped advance the field of video-endoscopic neck surgery. Dr Inabnet is also a leader in the field of minimally invasive metabolic surgery with an interest in disorders of the endocrine system in obese patients, especially Type 2 diabetes and malignancy. Dr Inabnet has participated in national and international clinical trials evaluating the role of gastrointestinal surgery in treating diabetes. He holds numerous leadership positions in the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, American Association of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, the American College of Surgeons and the American Thyroid Association.Dr Inabnet has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and 6 textbooks.

Bariatric (Severe Obesity) Procedures

• biliopancreatic diversion
• gastric banding
• laparoscopic gastric banding
• laparoscopic gastric bypass
• roux-en-Y gastric bypass

Endocrine (Gland)

• adrenal cancers/tumors
• adrenal surgery
• hyperparathyroidism
• pancreatic endocrine tumors
• parathyroid cancer
• parathyroid surgery
• pheochromocytoma
• thyroid nodules/cancer
• thyroid surgery

Head and Neck

• parathyroid surgery
• thyroid surgery

Minimal Access Surgery

Minimally Invasive Procedures

• fine needle aspiration/biopsy
• laparoscopic surgery
• robotic surgery

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

• adrenal tumors
• endocrine cancer
• neurofibromatosis
• thyroid cancer/nodules

Columbia University Medical Center.

New York, NY

Attending

11/2003—08/2009

Mount Sinai Medical Center

New York, NY, NY

Attending

09/2009—08/2019

University of Kentucky

Lexington, KY

Attending

09/2019—Present

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine

Chapel Hill, NC

Instructor

08/1987—Present

Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University

New York, NY

Assistant Professor

03/1998—10/2003

Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

New York, NY

Associate Professor

10/2003—08/2009

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Professor

09/2009—Present

University of Kentucky College of Medicine

Lexington, KY

Chairman

09/2019—Present