Consultant in Gastrointestinal and Colorectal Surgery, Angeles Pedregal Hospital, Mexico City, Mexico.

 

Born in Mexico City, 1950.

 

STUDIES:

 

MD Degree – National University of Mexico, Mexico City.

 

Internship in General Surgery – District of Columbia General Hospital, Washington D.C. USA.

 

Residence in General, Vascular and Endoscopic Surgery  – West Virginia University, Charleston, WV, USA.

 

Fellowship in Colon and Rectal Surgery – University of Texas, Hermann M.D. Anderson Hospitals, Houston, USA.

 

POSITIONS:

 

Past President of the Medical Society at Angeles Pedregal Hospital, Mexico City.

 

Past President of Bioethics Committee at Angeles Pedregal Hospital. Mexico City.

 

Member of the Education Committee of Angeles Group. Mexico.

 

Coeditor of Acta Médica Magazine, Mexico.

 

Director of the ATLS Course of the American College of  Surgeons, Mexico.

 

Instructor of the Oncology Course of the Cancer Committee of the American College of Surgeons, Mexico.

 

Participation in more than 20 papers and several surgical book chapters.

 

Professor in more than 300 conferences.

 

AWARDS:

 

Summa Cum Laude National University of Mexico, Mexico.

 

Dean´s Prize, General Surgery Residency, W. V. University, USA.

 

MEMBERSHIPS:

 

American Board of Surgery

 

American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery

 

Fellow American College of Surgeons

 

Mexican Society of Endoscopic Surgery

 

Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons

 

World Association of Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary Surgery

 

Mexican Society of General Surgery

 

Mexican Society of Gastroenterology

 

Mexican Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery

 

Medical Society of the National Nutrition Institute Salvador Zubirán

 

Medical Society of the ABC Hospital

 

Medical Society of the Angeles Pedregal Hospital

 

Latinoamerican Federation of Surgery