About
Cynthia Paciulli, MD, FACS, FASMBS, FPD Bariatrics
champions an individualized approach to essential weight loss by focusing on the health of body, mind, and spirit.
After earning her MD at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas and completing her General Surgery Residency, Research Fellowship, and Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowships in Baltimore and Charlotte, she co-founded and developed a highly successful Weight Loss Surgery program on the New Hampshire Seacoast. Over the past two decades, she has performed over 1,000 bariatric surgery cases and thousands of minimally invasive general surgery cases, currently focusing primarily on Metabolic Surgery within the renowned Mass General Brigham Integrated Health Care System. She is among the first group of surgeons in the United States to achieve the “Focused Practice Designation in Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery” issued by the American Board of Surgery in 2022.
Dr. Paciulli is widely recognized as a thoughtful and precise surgeon with quality outcomes and excellent patient success rates. She is a compassionate and fully present holistic-minded provider and patient advocate.
Her mission is to combine her surgical expertise with her interest and training in psychology and BioEnergetics, her passion for Food as Medicine, and her ongoing education in the field of Functional Medicine (individualized systems based approach which focuses on root causes rather than symptoms) to empower people to truly thrive in life well beyond their life-saving bariatric surgery.
A Great surgeon has
an eagle's eye
Presence
a lion's heart
Passion
a Woman's hand
Precision
15th Century Proverb
Credentials and Memberships
- Focused Practice Designation in Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery
- Diplomate, American Board of Surgery
- Fellow, American College of Surgeons
- Fellow, American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgeons
- Member, New England Surgical Society
- Member, Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
- Member, New Hampshire Medical Society
- Member, Obesity Medicine Association
Select Leadership Highlights
Mass General Brigham Wentworth-Douglass Hospital
- Member, Board of Trustees
- Vice Chair, Department of Surgery
- Credentials Committee member
- Medical Executive Committee at-large representative
- Integrative Health Committee
Portsmouth Regional Hospital 2002 – 2018
- Chief of Medical Staff
- Chief of Surgery
- Chair, Institutional Review Board
- Co-founder and Director, Bariatric Surgery Program