Physician Biography – Dr. Robert G. Marvin

Dr. Robert G. Marvin

Robert G. Marvin is a Board Certified General Surgeon who specializes in Minimally-Invasive Surgery (Laparoscopic Surgery) for the cure of Morbid Obesity. He has additional Board Certification in Surgical Critical Care and has been recognized by the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeons (ASMBS) and the American College of Surgery (ACS) as a Center of Excellence surgeon in the field of Bariatric Surgery.

Dr. Marvin grew up in Orange County, California, and attended the University of Southern California. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s degree in Biology in 1985. He then spent the next four years in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at McGill University at medical school, and subsequently graduated with the degree of MDCM in 1989.
 
Dr. Marvin began his Residency Training in San Antonio at the University of Texas Health Science Center in 1989. He was chosen as the Administrative Chief Resident for the General Surgery in his final year, and was designated the Outstanding Laparo-endoscopic Resident Surgeon in 1994.

In 1995 he moved to Houston, Texas where he did additional training as a Fellow in Surgical Critical Care at the University of Texas Houston. The following year he was asked to join the Faculty as an Assistant Professor of Surgery and taught at Hermann Hospital with the Trauma Service. He practiced general surgery, critical care and trauma surgery until 2000. During that time he conducted clinical research and his work was published in multiple medical journals such as the American Journal of Surgery and the Journal of Trauma. He also was the main author on the chapter on Critical Care in Sabiston’s Textbook of Surgery that year.

In September 2000 he left his professorship to enter a private surgical practice. Dr. Marvin has done additional training to learn the techniques of Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass (2001), the Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Band (2004) and the Laparoscopic Gastric Sleeve (2007) operations. Since the inception of his Obesity Surgery practice in 2002 he has performed surgery for more than 2000 patients suffering from Morbid Obesity with excellent outcomes and low complication rates. Because of the quality of this care he was recognized as a Surgeon practicing at a Center of Excellence by the ASMBS, and separately by the ACS, in 2006. Dr. Marvin was appointed and served as Medical Director at Obesity Surgery Specialists (OSS) in Houston from 2004 to 2008.

He is currently the Chief of Bariatric Surgery at University General Hospital and is the Medical Director of Houston Surgical Specialists. He maintains privileges at University General Hospital, The Methodist Hospital, Park Plaza Hospital and Memorial-Hermann Southeast.