Dr. Saba Shabnam MD

Professional Statement

Dr. Saba Shabnam graduated with Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery from Dow Medical College in 1996. She completed her Family Practice Residency in 2004 from The …

Dr. Saba Shabnam graduated with Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery from Dow Medical College in 1996. She completed her Family Practice Residency in 2004 from The Brooklyn Hospital Center affiliate Weill Medical College of Cornell University as the Chief Resident and was awarded the best graduating Resident by her Residency Program. Always inspired with the treatment and prevention of diseases she started conducting small educational group sessions for her overweight and diabetic patients as a third year resident in NY. After completing her residency she moved to Hobbs, New Mexico to start a Family Medicine Practice. While working as a Primary Care Physician, Dr Shabnam has been involved in the practice of Hospice Medicine and has served as Medical Director for reputable Hospice Organization for several years. In the meanwhile, she obtained specialized training in various fields of Cosmetic Surgery, Aesthetics, Bariatric Medicine and Anti –Aging Medicine from the leaders in the industry. In 2006, she became an active member and Associate of American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery and Cosmetic Family Practice. In late 2006, Dr Shabnam decided to move to Texas to join a renowned Family Practice Group in Bedford. While working as a Primary Care Physician, Dr Shabnam found herself continually challenged by the outgrowing numbers of obese and overweight individuals only to treat them for associated co-morbidities with more and more medications. She kept exploring her options to practice preventive medicine and realized the timely need to treat and prevent weight gain and the associated disorders. With the passion in her heart and the knowledge of a Family Practice Physician she opened a Medical Weight Loss Center in Grapevine, Texas in 2009 after receiving specialized training and certification in Bariatric Medicine.

As an innovative and open minded physician, Dr Shabnam is the creator of unique and proprietary state of the art Weight loss and Wellness programs. By Combining the non- invasive body sculpting with Cool Laser Lipolysis and the healthy and safe physician supervised weight loss program along with the treatment of metabolic diseases, nutritional deficiencies and now Bio-Identical Hormones provides her patients a new hope to lose weight, live healthy and be energetic thus helping patients all around North Texas.

As a strong advocate of Preventive Medicine, she became an Associate of American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine in April 2008. She has been receiving her certifications and training in the field of Anti-Aging Medicine and Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement.

She now brings the new, innovative state of the art Bio-Identical Hormone replacement pellets therapy to her practice, a new era of transforming life without any hassle by simply replacing what is missing in our body without the use of creams, gels injections or pills.

She is an active member of ASBP “American Society of Bariatric Physicians “, A4M “American Academy of Anti- Aging Medicine”, AACS “American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery” and AACFP “American academy of Cosmetic Family Practice.”

She believes in an honest, personable and open minded partnership between herself and her patients to achieve successful, healthy and maintainable goals. In her words, Fight against obesity is a lifelong battle that doesn’t stop at any time in our lives. It is a complex disorder that is affected by your life style, medications, hormonal imbalance and nutritional deficiencies. My patients are my asset and their goals are my priority. They chose their goals and I use my Family Medicine knowledge as the ground, my passion as the driving force and my skills as my weapon to help my patients win this fight every step of their way.

To me, treating one adult family member to achieve a healthy life style and be a productive member of our society is like serving the whole family. My patient will be like a Cypress tree in the sun implementing those healthy habits for the entire family and taking this message to the next level of awareness.

Dr Shabnam also provides wide variety of Aesthetic and Cosmetic Surgery procedures actively and skillfully practicing anti- aging medicine that goes hand in hand with her Bariatric Medicine practice. She is not only creating healthy bodies, she has on her record, many amazing and beautiful transformations and the results that speak for themselves.