Rebecca Allyn | 612-624-9016 | [email protected]
420 Delaware St SE
PWB 11-200
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Dr. Bharani is fellowship trained Minimally Invasive and Bariatric surgeon specializing in metabolic-bariatric surgery, foregut, hernia and complex abdominal wall reconstruction. Her clinical interests include the metabolic management of patients with end-stage organ disease and immunocompromised conditions, with a focus on optimizing surgical outcomes through multidisciplinary care. Dr. Bharani earned her medical degree with Academic Distinction from Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar and completed her general surgery residency training at the University of Pennsylvania and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. During residency, she completed a dedicated Clinical Nutrition Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she developed expertise in nutrition support and perioperative metabolic care. Outside of medicine, she enjoys baking and cooking, playing table tennis, hiking, reading non-fiction, and spending time with family.
Dr. Bharani’s research focuses on improving outcomes for patients who are immunocompromised and those with obesity or metabolic disorders. She conducts research in surgical nutrition, health services research, and quality improvement. Her work has leveraged large national databases to evaluate perioperative outcomes, utilization trends, healthcare disparities, and complications following metabolic and bariatric surgery. She has a particular interest in the intersection of metabolism and surgical outcomes. In addition to clinical research, Dr. Bharani is passionate about environmental sustainability efforts in surgery as well as the history of medicine and surgery. Her research program aims to develop innovative, evidence-based approaches to obesity treatment, optimize perioperative care through nutritional interventions for high-risk surgical patients, and expand access to effective metabolic and foregut therapies through clinical and policy-focused research.
Minimally invasive and robotic surgery, Bariatric metabolic surgery, foregut, complex abdominal wall reconstruction, general surgery, surgical nutrition