Dr. Craig L. Floch is the senior partner and founder of Floch Surgical Associates and Fairfield County Bariatrics. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a degree in psychology. He received his medical degree from
The Chicago Medical School, University of Health Sciences. He completed his
five-year surgical training at Mount Sinai Hospital in Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University Hospital under the training of Dr. Jeffery Ponsky. He was
chief resident of surgery at Case Western Reserve University Hospital and obtained postdoctoral training in Laparoscopic Skills and Anti-Reflux Procedures at Yale University in 1997.

Dr. Floch has been trained in Laparoscopic Gastric Banding by the Inamed Company and performs both the Lap-Band® and Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass surgeries. He is currently an attending surgeon at Norwalk Hospital and St. Vincent's Medical Center and is also a trauma surgeon at Norwalk Hospital.

Dr. Floch has been an instructor in the Yale University/Norwalk Hospital Surgical P.A. teaching program and received the Malcom S. Beinfield Award for Teaching Excellence in the Yale/Norwalk Surgical P.A. teaching program for the years 1996, 1998, 2001 and 2003. He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is also a member of the American Medical Association, Fairfield County Medical Society, the Connecticut State Medical Society, the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, and the American Society of Breast Surgeons.