Kamran Samakar, MA, MD

Kamran Samakar received his BA, with a major in philosophy and minor in biology and chemistry, from the University of California San Diego in 2001. He received his MA in Bioethics in 2003. His thesis project is entitled A Child’s Right to an Open Future: An Account of the Open Future from the Perspective of Well-being. He served as a Health Sciences Fellow of the Jewish Health Care Foundation and the Coro Center for Civic Leadership. Since graduating, he eceived his MD from the University of Minnesota School of Medicine and completed his General Surgery Residency Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center. He is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery and Program Director, Keck Hospital Bariatric Surgery