Dr. Pandurangan Krishnaraj is Board Certified by the American Board of Surgery, is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and is a member of the American Society of Bariatric Surgeons and the American Society of General Surgeons. He serves as Chief of Surgery at Pasco Regional Medical Center in Florida. Dr. Krishnaraj completed his medical education at Madras Medical College in Madras, Tamilnadu, India. He served his rotating internship at Government General Hospital in Madras, India. He completed his residency at Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens, Jamaica, New York. He has been performing the Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding (LAGB) or LAP-BAND® System procedure since October, 2002.