William H. Johnson MD, FACS

The Vein Center at Johns Creek is the premier vein treatment center in north Georgia and is dedicated to medical and cosmetic vein care. Our quality care vein treatment center offers state-of-the-art technology within elegant and comfortable surroundings. The Vein Center at Johns Creek is the varicose vein and spider vein treatment center of choice for anyone who is experiencing vein disease.

Dr. Hart is the Chief of Staff of Emory Johns Creek Hospital and serves as the Medical Director of the Atlanta Bariatric Center at Emory Johns Creek Hospital. Prior to founding Johns Creek Surgery/Atlanta Bariatrics he served as Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Emory University School of Medicine and was a founding member of the Emory bariatric surgery program. He is a native of Atlanta. After graduating from Vanderbilt University, Dr. Hart attended medical school at the University of Alabama – Birmingham. He performed his surgical residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, finishing as Chief Resident in Surgery. Dr. Hart has been practicing surgery in the Atlanta area for over 15 years. Dr. Hart has been named one of America’s Top Surgeons by the Consumers Research Council of America and was chosen by his peers as one of Atlanta’s Top Doctors. He has taught courses on the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative management of bariatric patients, as well as taught and proctored other surgeons on new techniques in weight loss surgery. Dr. Hart is a Diplomate of the National Board of Medical Examiners, is Board Certified by the American Board of Surgery, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the Southeastern Surgical Congress. He is recognized as a Center of Excellence surgeon by the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. He is a member of many other medical and surgical societies, including the Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, and the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. Dr. Hart is the President-Elect of the Mayo Clinic surgical society – the Priestley Society. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the Emory Johns Creek Hospital and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Emory Clinically Integrated Network.

If you are overweight and have tried everything imaginable to lose weight through conventional means such as dieting, exercise, behavior therapy, and/or drugs, but have been unsuccessful in your attempts, then weight loss surgery may be right for you. Atlanta Bariatrics specializes in weight loss surgery for morbidly obese patients. Atlanta Bariatrics at Johns Creek Surgery, PC has served the Atlanta community for over 15 years offering the most comprehensive treatment for patients suffering from obesity. Representing the best in their fields, Atlanta Bariatrics’s surgeons, Dr. Christopher J. Hart and Dr. William H. Johnson, bring special expertise to their patients to treat obesity by modification of the gastrointestinal tract to reduce nutrient intake and/or absorption. For individuals who have been unable to achieve significant weight loss through diet modification and exercise programs alone, bariatric surgery may help you attain a more healthy body weight.