SEPT. NIBJ: Physician feature: Dr. Derek Dirks
Dr. Derek Dirks is a general surgeon and the director of bariatric surgery at Northwest Specialty Hospital in Post Falls.
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Dr. Derek Dirks is one of the digestive doctors at Northwest Specialty Hospital. From left: Dirks, Dr. Michael James, Dr. Olga Lebedevskiy and Dr. John Pennings.
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Dr. Derek Dirks is a general surgeon and the director of bariatric surgery at Northwest Specialty Hospital in Post Falls.
A 2005 Coeur d'Alene High School graduate, Dirks attended the University of Idaho where he graduated with his Bachelor of Science in biology in 2009. He graduated from medical school at the Roy J. and Lucille A. College of Medicine at the University of Iowa in Iowa City in 2014, completed general surgery residency at the University of South Dakota General Surgery Residency program in Sioux Falls, S.D. in 2019 and completed bariatric surgery fellowship program at Legacy Good Samaritan in Portland.
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