About Dr. Thomas

Clifton Thomas, MD, is a board certified general surgeon and graduated from Southwestern Medical School with a mini-fellowship in bariatric surgery. Before moving into a private practice focused on minimally invasive laparoscopic gastrointestinal surgery, Dr. Thomas worked as an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Marshall University in West Virginia. As far as nutrition and behavioral change are concerned, Dr. Thomas has taken many advanced courses.

He is known for the ease of his operation and his ability to make the entire process simple for the patient. Often, nurses ask him “Why do your patients do so well and have so few complications, post-operative pain, or nausea?” The answer is always the same. “It’s lots of things and they add up”.

As a Bariatric Weight Loss Surgeon with 21 years of experience, Dr. Thomas assists patients with changing their daily eating habits

Having a sleeve gastrectomy helps you overcome the first big hurdle and gets the body working for you instead of against you. Dr. Thomas will then help you develop better eating habits.

As an outpatient hiatal hernia surgeon, Dr. Thomas has 29 years of experience dealing with HEARTBURN and REFLUX and GERD.

It is wonderful for patients to be free of heartburn and reflux symptoms, as well as to stop taking heartburn medications.

Featured in the 2008 acclaimed TLC documentary “Half Ton Mom” where he along with “My 600 pound life” surgeon Dr. Younan Nowzaradan did the largest laparoscopic gastric bypass in the world.
Author of “Skinny Jeans at Last, Secrets to Long Term Weight Loss Surgery Success” and “The One Hour Power Diet”
Host of Change Your Eating podcast
Regular on several TV shows: Great Day Houston, Houston Life, and Wake UP TV
Pioneer of Laparoscopic Nissen Fundoplication for GERD as a treatment for Heartburn symptoms and Hiatal Hernia.

One of the first five surgeons in Texas approved by the FDA to perform the Lap Band in the year 2002.
Began performing the Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass in 2000, and the gastric sleeve 2008.
One of the first surgeons in Houston given the Center of Excellence designation by the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, ASMBS.