Biography

Dr. Ryan Lehmann is a bariatric surgeon at the University of Iowa. He is also a general surgeon on staff at the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He completed his general surgery residency in 2011 at Madigan Army Medical Center, and then spent 5 years as a general and bariatric surgeon in the Army on active duty, including deployments to Afghanistan and Kosovo. He then completed a fellowship in bariatric surgery at St. Alexius Hospital in St. Louis, MO. He stayed on as a staff surgeon there for 2 years before moving to the University of Iowa, where he’s been on faculty for the past 3 years. His areas of focus include: robotic bariatric and hernia surgery, surgical simulation, and resident education.