Keith Boone, MD, FACS
Clinical Professor
Surgery - Fresno
School of Medicine

Clinical Professor, UCSF

A Central Valley native, Dr. Boone earned his bachelor’s degree from UC Santa Barbara before attending the University of Southern California School Of Medicine. After completing his residency in general surgery, Dr. Boone fulfilled a commitment to the United States Navy, including aircraft carrier and battle group surgeon in the Persian Gulf. He was also the Assistant Clinical Professor in surgery at the University of California, Davis.

Dr. Boone partnered with Dr. Kelvin Higa in 1996 and helped develop the revolutionary “hand-sewn” gastrojejunal anastomotic technique used by many surgeons in performing Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. He lectures on various aspects of weight loss surgery both nationally and internationally. He has demonstrated this technique via live telesurgery to many national conferences and has authored and co-authored many peer-reviewed articles and book chapters on weight-loss surgery. Together, Dr. Boone and Dr. Higa have performed several thousand weight loss procedures.

He is currently the Director of Fellowship Education for ALSA. This program is accredited through the University of California San Francisco – Fresno Medical Education Program where he also holds the title of Associate Clinical Professor in Surgery.

Dr. Boone is Board Certified in general surgery, and is an active member of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS). He is also an active member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), International Federation of the Surgery of Obesity, Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, California Medical Association, Fresno-Madera Medical Society and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). Dr. Boone has assisted in training over 100 fellows and residents through the UCSF Fresno.

• Conversion of standard Roux-en-Y gastric bypass to distal bypass for weight loss failure and metabolic syndrome: 3-year follow-up and evolution of technique to reduce nutritional complications.
  Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery 2018 Ghiassi S, Higa K, Chang S, Ma P, Lloyd A, Boone K, DeMaria EJ
• Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: 10-year follow-up.
  Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery 2010 Higa K, Ho T, Tercero F, Yunus T, Boone KB
• Gastric bypass: increased restriction for poor weight loss.
  Surgical endoscopy 2007 Higa KD, Boone K, Nimeri A, Tercero F, Jackson A, Khan A
• [Mesenteric closure in laparoscopic gastric bypass: surgical technique and literature review].
  Cirugia espanola 2007 Higa K, Boone K, Arteaga González I, López-Tomassetti Fernández E
• Internal hernias after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: incidence, treatment and prevention.
  Obesity surgery 2003 Higa KD, Ho T, Boone KB
• Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: technique and 3-year follow-up.
  Journal of laparoendoscopic & advanced surgical techniques. Part A 2001 Higa KD, Ho T, Boone KB
• Narcotic withdrawal syndrome following gastric bypass--a difficult diagnosis.
  Obesity surgery 2001 Higa KD, Ho T, Boone KB, Roubicek MC
• Complications of the laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: 1,040 patients--what have we learned?
  Obesity surgery 2000 Higa KD, Boone KB, Ho T
• Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for morbid obesity: technique and preliminary results of our first 400 patients.
  Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) 2000 Higa KD, Boone KB, Ho T, Davies OG