Every case, every illness, every surgery becomes for me a personal challenge, so that my knowledge, my energy, my experience and my last exhalo will be for the battle against disease and death. Always under the help and protection of the Supreme Being, to whom I always ask for help, God.

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• MSc in Health Management. Instituto Centroamericano de Administración Pública (ICAP - Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (TEC). 2004 - 2006
• Specialty in General Surgery. Universidad de Costa Rica. 2004
• Specialty in Advanced Endoscopic Surgery. Hospital General Gea González. 2003
• Bachelor and Licenciate Degree in Medical Sciences. Universidad de Costa Rica. 1997

• Bariatric Surgery Update - Medical Education Clinical Immersion, Montefiore Medical Center, New York

  2017

• Bariatric League ETHICON - Summit Bariátrica, Panama City

  2016

• Seminar - Iberian American Congress of Obesity, Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

  2016

• Advanced Bariatric Training- Revisional Surgery, Complications & Dilemmas Johnson & Johnson - CAL Innotivation Institute

  2015

• Of Traning in Minimal Access Surgery - IRCAD- Latin America, American Institute of Telesurgery

  2014

• Precongress Course: Comprehensive treatment of obese patients - International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity IFSO, Cancun

  2007

• Course: Advanced Endoscopic Surgery

  2007

• Second Latin American Congress of Surgery for Obesity - International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity IFSO

  2007

• Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS). College of Physicians and Surgeons of Costa Rica

  2006

• Advance Bariatric Surgery - 23rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery ASBS

  2006

• Annual Congress - American Society for Bariatric Surgery ASBS

  2006

• I Costa Rican Congress of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome - Bariatric Surgery Symposium

  2006

• Course: Bariatric Surgery - I Costa Rican Congress of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome

  2006

• Workshop: Certification in the placement of strips by laparoscopy

  2005

• Course for certification in placement of adjustable gastric bands - LAP-BAND

  2005

• Thyroid Cancer Update

  2005

• Problems of the gastrointestinal tract in the elderly

  2005

• Second Symposium on Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery - Cancun, Mexico

  2004

• Pain management with an emphasis on palliative care

  2000

• Special Postgraduate Course in Local Management - CENDEISSS, University of Costa Rica

  1998

• Hospital Rotation

  Metabolic Bariatric Surgery - Costa Rica

• Physicians and Surgeons College of Costa Rica cod. MED5360Active

  Medic and Surgeon - Costa Rica

• International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity IFSO
• Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons SAGES
• American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery ASMBS

• 2004 Graduated with Honors - General Surgery Specialty - Universidad de Costa Rica

• Coordinator - Committee on Bariatric Surgery, Hospital San Juan de Dios
• Medical Assistant Specialist in General Surgery - Hospital San Juan de Dios, San Jose. 2004 to date
• Chief of Residents and Inmates - Hospital San Juan de Dios, San José. 2003 - 2004
• Resident Doctor General Surgery - Hospital San Juan de Dios San José. 2000 - 2004
• Business Practitioner - NOVONTAR, PIPASA, Puntarenas. 1998 - 2000
• Assistant Physician of External Consultation - Clínica de Chomes, Puntarenas. 1999 - 2000
• Professor - University of Costa Rica. 2004 - to date

• Programa de Mejoramiento Continuo de la CalidadII Foro Nacional de la CalidadPapanicolau domiciliar en Sector de Chomes - PuntarenasProyecto ganador con mención por parte de la OPSColegio de Médicos y CirujanosSan José, Costa Rica, Noviembre 1999
• Schwannoma de colonPublicación en Acta Médica CostarricenseVolumen 45 Número 2Abril – Junio 2003
• Púrpura Trombocitopénica trombótica desencadenada por pancreatitis agudaGaceta Médica de Costa RicaVolumen 6 Número 2Julio – Diciembre 2004
• Pancreatoduodenectomía con preservación de píloroPublicación de Acta Médica CostarricenseVolumen 47 Número 1Enero – Marzo de 2005
• Extracción laparoscópica de cuerpos extraños intrabdominalesGaceta médica de Costa RicaVolumen 7 Número 1Enero – Junio 2005
• Reparación laparoscópica de fístula colecistoduodenalGaceta médica de Costa RicaVolumen 7 Número 2Julio – Diciembre 2005
• Colecistectomía laparoscópica ambulatoriaActa Médica CostarricenseVolumen 48 Número 3
• Cirugía BariátricaActa Médica CostarricenseVolumen 48 Número 4
• Historia de la Cirugía Laparoscópica en Costa RicaActa Médica Costarricense Volumen 49 Número 1