Omar Y Kudsi, MD, MBA
Not currently accepting new patients
4.675 average rating from 32 patient reviews
Specialties
Affiliation
Mass General Brigham
Provider Locations
- Boston, MA
Dr. Kudsi is a minimal invasive surgeon with clinical focus on complex abdominal wall reconstruction. Recognized for maintaining one of the world’s most extensive personal databases in robotic AWR, spanning from patient-reported outcomes to published long-term follow-up data. He played a key role in setting up robotic hernia programs in Americas, Europe, & Asia and performed over 3500 robotic surgeries. Throughout his career, he established an accredited MIS fellowship and a funded clinical research fellowship focused on AWR and artificial intelligence. He has written over 100 original peer reviewed articles, abstracts, and book chapters. He serves as a periodic reviewer of several surgical journals and is the co-editor of five robotic textbooks with over 100 national & international presentations. He has assumed prominent leadership roles at CRSA, SAGES, ASE, and founded the Robotic Surgery Collaboration (RSC), a vicarious learning platform that unites over 10,000 surgeons. He has organized numerous international summits, taught hernia surgery to over 1000 surgeons and was awarded the Swedish Surgical Society’s medal in 2022.
Dr. Kudsi, a native of Aleppo, Syria, earned his medical degree from University of Aleppo, followed by a postdoctoral research fellowship in tissue engineering at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, surgical residency at Lankenau Medical Center, minimal invasive surgery fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and advanced Minimal Invasive Surgery traveling fellowship at IRCAD Strasbourg University, France. He pursued an MBA with a focus on entrepreneurship and co-founded digital surgical, a company with patented technology in intra-operative real-time 3D micrometer scanning and Artificial intelligence.
Education & Training
- Fellowship: Minimal Invasive and Bariatric Surgery Fellowship, Daniel Jones ( Former Program Director ), 2012
- Residency: General Surgery Residency Program, Lankenau Medical Center, Jonathan Gefen, MD Associate Residency Program Director, 2011
- Fellowship: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Research in Tissue Engineering, 2006
- Internship: Central Hospital of Aleppo, Emergency Surgery, 2005
- Medical Education: University of Aleppo Faculty of Medicine, B.S. & M.D., 2004
Board Certifications
- Surgery (General Surgery), American Board of Surgery
Languages Spoken
- Turkish
- French
- Arabic
- English
Age Group Treated
- Adults
Patient Feedback
4.675 average rating from 32 reviews
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He was very professional and he explained everything to me. I felt very comfortable and I felt very confident that he was going to do the surgery. We're lucky to have doctors like that and I appreciate it.
2026-07-03
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He took the time to explain what to expect for the surgery needed. He was very personable to myself and my husband.
2026-07-01
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Dr. Kudsi is great. I am very glad that I met him and found him. He's an awesome doctor.
2026-07-03
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Very precise and educated me on the condition, procedure, and needing CT Scan to determine cause of action.
2026-07-01
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Dr. Kudsi is a great listener, as well as wonderfully experienced surgeon. He gave me sufficient information to make a good decision about my care. Dr. Kudsi is an excellent communicator.
2026-05-07
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Yeah, Dr. Kudsi , it was really, it was a nice experience. It was good. Hopefully you can move forward with the surgery that they're planning for me. But everything else was good. Thank you.
2026-05-04
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Excellent reputation for addressing my problem--a failed hernia repair in recent past needing revision.
2026-05-04
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I was very anxious about this procedure and Dr. Kudsi put my mind at ease simply with his kind and extremely respectful manner. He allayed my fears and answered all of my questions before I even knew what they were!
2026-05-03
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He is very thorough and listened to everything I had to say.
2026-03-09
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Comprehensive and excellent communication of personal medical issues concerning patient health requirements.
2026-03-04
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This care provider helped me six years ago and once again willing to do what needs to be done to relieve my daily pain. He is a caring, super intelligent, wonderful doctor.
2026-03-14
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Dr Kudsi is great!
2026-02-26
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My experience with this doctor was excellent he was very knowledgeable about what is going on with me he looked at my chart before I got there and he was very helpful
2025-11-22
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I can now stop worrying
2025-10-29
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[redacted] I had a very good rapport with Dr. Kudsi. He seemed very empathetic, very knowledgeable, and I feel very comfortable having him
2025-09-26
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Phlebotomist did an excellent job.
2025-09-23
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He was fine.
2025-09-04
Accepted Insurance
- Tufts Medicare Preferred
- Wellpoint
- MassHealth
- Multiplan
- Medicare
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Fallon Health
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Tricare
- Beech Street
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- United Health Care
- Tufts Health Plan
- Senior Whole Health
- WellSense
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- Coventry
- Cigna
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Aetna
- Humana