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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 2017

Denis Alemka Foretia, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Society of Black Academic Surgeons
  • Soc for Surg Alim Tract
  • Am Medical Association
  • Southeastern Surg Cong
  • Assn for Acad Surg
  • Soc of Am Gast End Surgs
  • Southern Surg Assn

Additional Information

Gender

Male

General Surgery

Contact Information

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Endocrine (Gland)

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

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

  • abdominal pain
  • abdominoplasty
  • adhesion removal
  • anti-reflux procedures
  • appendectomy
  • feeding tubes
  • fundoplication
  • gastroesophageal reflux disease
  • malrotation
  • peptic ulcer disease
  • peritonitis
  • splenectomy

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

  • bile duct surgery
  • biliary tract disease
  • cholecystectomy
  • gallstone disease
  • laparoscopic cholecystectomy
  • liver biopsy
  • pancreatic cysts
  • pancreatitis

Hernia Procedures

  • abdominal hernia
  • component separation
  • epigastric hernia
  • femoral hernia
  • inguinal hernia
  • laparoscopic hernia repair
  • paraesophageal hernia
  • umbilical hernia
  • ventral hernia

Colon and Rectal Disorders/Cancer

  • colectomy
  • colon surgery
  • colonic polyps
  • colostomy
  • diverticular disease
  • ileostomy
  • intussusception
  • Meckel's diverticulum
  • ulcerative colitis

Trauma/Injury Procedures

  • amputation
  • finger injuries
  • reconstructive limb surgery
  • reconstructive spine surgery

Hospital Appointments

LifeBridge Health Baltimore

Baltimore, MD

Attending

07/2015—Present

Academic Appointments

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Baltimore, MD

Instructor

07/2015—Present

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA

Clinical Associate

08/2016—Present