Meet Dr. Weston
Dr. Steven Weston
Board Certified Physician & Medical Director
Dr. Steven Weston is originally from Paris, Illinois, a very small, rural town located in
east central Illinois. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at
Urbana/Champaign. After graduation, Dr. Weston traveled to Springfield, Illinois to attend
medical school at Southern Illinois University and then to Marshall University, in WV for
his general surgery residency.
Dr. Weston is a general surgeon that has done a variety of complex procedures throughout his
career in the medical field. During his “wonder years” he trained with the only pediatric surgeon
in the state of West Virginia. An extremely busy pediatric surgery program, Dr. Weston’s program
has the only burn unit in the state so Dr. Weston has earned extensive training in burns, skin
care and skin grafting. Dr. Weston also has extensive experience in colon and rectal surgery
with thousands of endoscopies and colonoscopy procedures performed over the last 15 years in
private practice as well as offering over 20 years of experience using YAG and KTP lasers and
Argon beam, coagulators.
Dr. Weston’s career in medicine started in high school when he worked at a pharmacy. Delivering
patient aids, prescriptions and oxygen tanks are what Dr. Weston claims steered him towards the
healthcare profession. Dr. Weston received his introduction to trauma while in college. He became
an emergency medical technician and worked at Barnes Hospital in Urbana, IL. Dr. Weston also had
short stints as a respiratory therapist, and felt confident with the knowledge he possessed before
beginning medical school. While in medical school, Dr. Weston worked at The Memorial Medical Center
and St. John’s Hospital in Springfield and at Marshall University Dr. Weston worked at St. Mary’s
Hospital, Cabell Huntington Hospital and the VA Medical Center which was a large VA Hospital...a
teaching hospital. Dr. Weston has spent the past 15 years of his medical career in Gastonia, NC and
the surrounding areas at Gaston Memorial Hospital, Kings Mountain Hospital and Carolinas Medical
Center in uptown Charlotte, NC.
Dr Weston and his wife, Lisa are happily married and raising 6 children together, 3 boys and 3
girls between the ages of 11 to 23. Dr. Weston’s hobbies include waterskiing, both as a slalom and
barefoot water skier.
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