| Arthur I. Gilbert, M.D. |
 Arthur I. Gilbert, M.D., founder of The Hernia Institute of Florida,
is a lifelong resident of Dade County. He graduated from Miami Beach High School,
attended Tulane University in New Orleans, and received his Doctor of Medicine
Degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine. After an internship at Albany Hospital in New York, a residency in general surgery at the University of Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, Dr. Gilbert opened a private surgical practice. He grew increasingly interested in the problems caused by hernias and he began to limit his practice to hernias. He is one of a few surgeons in the world to do so. Since that time he has repaired more than 22,000 hernias. In 1995 he was President of
the Florida Surgical Society and in 1997 became the founding President of the American
Hernia Society. He developed a classification of hernias that is widely used in the world,
and developed special repair techniques that are being used by surgeons everywhere. Surgeons from
around the country and the world to attend the “Advanced Herniorrahphy” Seminars
that Dr. Gilbert conducts at the Hernia Institute. Dr. Gilbert is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, has served on the
South Miami Hospital Board of Governors and has been president of its medical staff. He
was South Miami Hospital’s "Person of the Year" in 1995, and is listed in
the current edition of "The Best Doctors in America." |