Elizabeth A. Dovec, MD, FACS, FASMB is a bariatric surgeon, bariatrician, and medical director at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC) Comprehensive Obesity Management Program (COMP) since 2013 after completing fellowship training with Vanderbilt University's Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery Program. Through novel approaches focusing on the patient experience and sustainable results, she leads one of the busiest programs in the nation. A Board Certified General Surgeon, American Board of Obesity Medicine Certified Diplomat, and Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS), she is passionate about diminishing the staggering obesity epidemic. She has been instrumental in creating a trusted, standardized, state of the art, digital, preoperative education system to prepare patients for bariatric surgery.