Education and Training
Medical School
La Salle University
Mexico City, DF, Mexico
graduated 1978
General Surgery Training
IMSS - Specialties Hospital, La Raza Medical Center
Mexico City, DF, Mexico
graduated 1984
Achievements, Positions Held and Honors
- Professor of General Surgery of The University of Baja California from 1993 to date. Professor of Surgery Residence in the General Hospital #20-IMSS Tijuana, Baja California from 1990 to date. Professor of the Basic Laparoscopic Surgery Training Center, Tijuana Baja California. Professor of The Laparoscopic Surgery Training Center of Esophagus diseases in the HGR c-20 IMSS Tijuana, Baja California. Professor of The Laparoscopic Surgery Training Center of inguinal hernia repair in the HGR c-20 IMSS Tijuana, Baja California. International Professor of Bariatric Surgery. Professor of Obesity Surgery (Lap-Band placement) in the United States. Professor of Hernia Surgery in the University of Yale Connecticut U.S.A. 2001.
- Director Hospital Angeles Tijuana Bariatric program, March 2007 to date.
- Regional Coordinator of Laparoscopic Surgery ISS Northwest region from 1994 to date.
- President of the Surgeons Association of Baja California from 1997 to 1998. Regional Head of the Mexican Association of Laparaoscopic Surgery from 1992 to 1997.
- Emergency Room Director at Tijuana’s #20 IMSS General Hospital from 1989 to 1998.
- Current member of the Mexican Association of General Surgery (AMCG), the Mexican Association of Endoscopic Surgery (AMCE) (President 2006-2007), the Tijuana School of Medicine, the Tijuana General Surgeons Association, the Mexican Association of Obesity Surgery, the Latin American Association of Endoscopic Surgery, the International Federation of Obesity Surgery, and the *C.A.B* (Council of Advanced Bariatrics) and is a former Member of SAGES (Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Sugeons).
