Ascension Medical Group has added General Surgeon Maykong Leepalao, M.D., to the medical staffs of Ascension St. Clare’s Hospital, Weston, and Ascension Good Samaritan Hospital, Merrill.

Maykong Leepalao

She provides specialized surgical care for people of all ages with advanced training in bariatric surgery. Leepalao has special interest in complex minimally invasive and robotic surgery, including foregut, hernia and bariatric surgery.

She joins Jeremy Luedtke, M.D and Noah Wride, M.D., as general surgeons with Ascension Medical Group in Weston and Merrill.

Leepalao earned her medical degree at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, and completed her general surgery residency at Marshfield Clinic Health System. She completed a bariatric surgery fellowship at Peachtree Surgical and Bariatrics, Atlanta, Georgia.