About Dr. Tin
Lancelot K. Tin, MD FACS FRCSC
After graduating magna cum laude from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island with a BS in electrical engineering and chemistry, Dr. Tin received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania. His surgical residency at McGill University provided extensive training in general surgery, bariatric surgery and surgical intensive care. He devoted his surgical research to morbid obesity during his surgical residency training. He has been in private practice since 1988 and furthered his experience in minimally invasive surgery. He is board certified, a diplomat of the American Board of Surgery and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Toronto gastric banding specialist Lancelot K. Tin was been the Chief of Surgery at St. Charles Hospital in Toledo, Ohio, USA, for 8 years and the Chief of Surgery at the Credit Valley Hospital in Mississauga, Ontario from 2002 - 2007. He currently devotes much of his practice in surgical weight loss.
Dr. Tin is an experienced and innovative advanced laparoscopic surgeon and has been performing laparoscopic gastric banding procedures for the past four years. The laparoscopic gastric banding procedure is the lowest risk and least invasive weight loss surgery available. Laproscopic Gastric Banding is the procedure of choice provided by Dr. Tin at Credit Valley Hospital where the state of the art facility, Minimally Invasive Suite (MIS), is available.
Dr. Tin in the Hospital News:
Please refer to the “Gastric banding – A Weight Loss Strategy for the Morbidly Obese” A Credit to your Health, a publication of the Credit Valley Hospital, Spring 2006, Volume 8 issue 2