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Steven C. Poplawski, MD, FACS

Dr. Steven Poplawski* is a bariatric and general surgeon with 23 years of general surgical experience. He serves as a bariatric surgeon at Forest Health Medical Center in southeast Michigan and is the medical director for the Barix Clinics program.



Dr. Poplawski received his MD degree in 1981 from the University of Illinois, Rockford School of Medicine in Rockford, Illinois. He completed an internship at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a surgical residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska, where he was chief resident in 1986. He completed two-year fellowships at the University of Pittsburgh, Presbyterian Medical Center; Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and at Baylor University Medical Center’s Department of Surgery/ Transplantation Services in Dallas, Texas.

Dr. Poplawski has practiced at the Department of Surgery, Sterling-Rock Falls Clinic, Ltd. In Sterling, Illinois; the Department of Surgery at the Carolinas Medical Center, where he was director of the liver transplant program; the Department of Surgery/Division of Transplantation at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, as director of the liver transplant program; and has held several surgical staff positions at other hospitals. He has held numerous hospital appointments, including General Surgery QA Committee, member of the Medical Ethics Committee at Carolinas Medical Center; and Interim Associate Director, UAB Liver Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has also held teaching and research positions with the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. Poplawski is licensed in the states of Michigan, Arizona, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas, and is board certified by both the American Board of Surgery and the National Board of Medical Examiners. His memberships in professional societies include the American Medical Association, the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases, the Association for Academic Surgery, the American Hepato-Pancreato-Billary Association, the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, and the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. He is also a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons.


Dr. Poplawski performs the following procedures through the Barix Clinics program:

Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

Open Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass

Adjustable Gastric Band (LAP-BAND® and REALIZE™ Band used)

Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy

*  Members of the medical staff are not employees or agents of the Hospital or the Barix Clinics® program. Each physician providing services at Barix Clinics® facilities is an independent contractor responsible for exercising his or her sound medical judgment when rendering care. Neither the Hospital nor the Barix Clinics® program controls the independent medical judgment exercised by the physicians practicing at the Hospital, and neither assumes any liability or responsibility for a physician’s independent medical decisions.

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