Biography

Dr. Michaelson is the Medical Director of Northwest Weight & Wellness Center and has been exclusively focused on Bariatrics since 2006.

Dr. Michaelson is Board Certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Obesity Medicine, and most recently received Focused Practice Designation for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery by the American Board of Surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a Fellow of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. He is Past-President of the Washington State Chapter of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, and was honorably retired from the Medical Corps of the United States Navy after 23 years of service. He has been named one of Seattle’s “Top Docs” five times and ”Best of Western Washington’s” Best Doctor in 2008.

In 1991, Dr. Michaelson received his Ph.D. in Neuroendocrinology while a member of the faculty at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He taught physiology to medical students, while he earned his own Medical Degree. He completed his General Surgery training at the University of California San Diego Medical Center in 2000 and went on to complete intense training in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery at the Texas Endosurgery Institute under Dr. Morris Franklin.