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Dr. Dennis Fernandez is a board certified general surgeon. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and formerly served as the Chief of Surgery at Crestwood Medical Center.  He is also a bariatric surgeon offering both gastric sleeve and gastric bypass. Fernandez currently performs robotic gastric sleeve, gastric bypass, appendectomies, cholecystectomies and complex abdominal hernia repairs. He is amongst the first surgeons in the United States and the first in Alabama to perform robotic complex hernia repairs including abdominal wall reconstruction. He instructs and proctors other surgeons nation-wide on this complex procedure.

Dr. Funderburk has more than 25 years practicing General Urology. He focuses on Urologic Cancer, Stone Disease and BPH. He served as clinical associate professor in Surgery for Mercer Medical School, teaching medical students and residents. He has also served in leadership of all hospital staff positions and in the American College of Surgeons.

Dr. Wargo has been practicing anesthesiology, pain management, interventional pain management, and regenerative medicine with a comprehensive evidence-based approach emphasizing holistic and preventive management.  He is part of the new Interventional Pain Management service at North Alabama Shoals Hospital.

Dr. Mesquita completed full general surgery training at Wayne State University. Prior to that, he was at the Institute of Cancer of Ceaera in Brazil, where he served as managing director and head of the department of digestive oncology. Mesquita has had work published 29 times and will bring expertise in surgical oncology and general surgery, along with Laparoscopic, abdominal, gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, liver and gastric surgery.