Tuesday Cook, MD

Tuesday F. A. Cook, MD, is a Board Certified, Fellowship-Trained Bariatric Surgeon. Performing a variety of minimally invasive foregut and weight-loss operations since 2008, Dr. Cook has also lectured on metabolic and bariatric procedures, care of the bariatric patient and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Dr. Cook received her medical degree from the Howard University College of Medicine and completed a general surgery residency at Howard University Hospital. She subsequently did a fellowship in Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery at the Pennsylvania State University Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and is also board certified in Obesity Medicine. Along with her focus on the treatment of obesity, she is active on many local, state, national and international committees focused on decreasing health disparities. She has been featured on nationally syndicated radio shows and social media platforms as a proponent of increased access to care and health equity, discussing the social and political determinants of health in minority communities. Dr. Cook is passionate about the treatment of metabolic diseases by management of obesity through a multi-disciplinary, patient-centered approach and is dedicated to ensuring health equity for people of color throughout the world.