He received his Bachelor of Science, cum laude, from McGill University and his Medical Degree from the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. He completed his internship and residency in general surgery at the University of Montreal. Following his fellowship training in nutrition and metabolism at Brown University/Rhode Island, he returned to Montreal as an attending surgeon at the Hotel Dieu Hospital. His expertise in surgical nutrition was instrumental in him obtaining an adjunct professorship at McGill University where he was co-director of the home nutritional support team. In 1999, Dr. Pomp was recruited to The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York where he helped establish one of the world’s first programs for minimally invasive weight-loss surgery.