Bio
Dan Azagury is the Section chief of Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery at Stanford University. He is a minimally invasive surgeon and a health technology innovator with an international background.
Dr. Azagury is the Director of the Innovation Fellowship program at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign. He teaches multidisciplinary teams a process to identify important healthcare needs and develop novel health technologies to address them. He also teaches in multiple international medical innovation programs and co-directed the Japan Biodesign partnership program.
He is an Associate Professor of Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and serves as Medical Director for the Stanford Lifestyle and Weight Management Center as well as fellowship director for Minimally Invasive and Bariatric surgery.
Dr. Azagury graduated from medical school in Switzerland, and completed surgical residency at the Geneva University Hospital. Following his board certification, he undertook a research fellowship focusing on novel minimally invasive techniques at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. He continued his time at the same institution and completed a clinical fellowship in bariatric and minimally invasive surgery. He then completed the Biodesign Innovation Fellowship at Stanford and co-founded Ciel Medical along with his Biodesign teammate Kate Garrett. Together they developed novel solutions for intubated patients in the ICU. Ciel Medical was acquired by Vyaire Medical in 2017.
His research focuses on multidisciplinary approaches to improving bariatric surgery outcomes as well as medical device innovation. He holds three patents and has published over 75 scientific articles and book chapters.
He speaks French, Spanish and English and loves living in the Bay Area with his wife and four children.
