He completed medical school at Mount Sinai in New York and received a Master of Education degree from the University of Cincinnati. He completed general surgery residency at Northwestern and an MIS/Foregut Surgery fellowship with Drs. Lee Swanstrom and Steven DeMeester in Portland, OR. Dr. Teitelbaum’s clinical practice focuses on minimally invasive foregut, bariatric, and general surgery and surgical endoscopy. His primary academic focus is resident education, including the development of simulator-based mastery learning curricula and the use of operative video-review as a teaching and learning tool.