• MD Graduation: Medical Faculty, University Francisco Marroquin (1985)
• Surgical: Department of General Surgery (6 years)
• Post-graduate: Hospital General San Juan de Dios (HGSJD) Guatemala City,  Chief Resident 1990
• Training Laparoscopic Surgery Abroad:
  • Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, 1991
  • Laparoscopic Antireflux Surgery
  • Laparoscopic Institute of South Florida, Miami.
  • Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding, Hospital Ángeles del Pedregal, México City, 2000
  • Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass, Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, 2000
  • Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Weston, Florida 2002
• Surgical, Chief Resident of Surgery at HGSJD (Hospital General San Juan de Dios), 1989-1990
• Positions: 4th. Surgical Unit at HGSJD, Vice-Chairman (1992 –2003);  Chairman a.i. from 2003 to 2005.

Fellowship Positions & Associations:

Fellow of the Guatemalan Association of Surgeons:

• Member of the Board in1996
• Treasurer in 2003
• Vice-President in 2005
• President in 2006-2007

ALACE (Latin-American Association of Endoscopic Surgery)

• Secretary/Treasurer, VII Latin-American Congress, Endoscopic Surgery, 2006
• Executiva Director (2006 to 2010)

FELAC (Federation of Latin-American Surgery)

• Proctor in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery

NEW LIFE CENTER, Guatemala City, Center for Weight-loss Surgery

• Executive Director, 2000 to date

ACBMG:  (Society for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery of Guatemala)

• President   2008-2012

Societies: (*)

• Fellow of the Guatemalan Association of Surgeons
• Active Member of ALACE
• Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
• Active Member of SAGES
• Charter Member of the American Hernia Society
• Regular Member of SSAT
• Regular Member  of ASMBS
• Regular Member of IFSES
• Regular Member of IFSO

(*) Acronyms =

• ALACE: “Asociación Latinoamericana de Cirugía Endoscópica” (Latin-American Association of Endoscopic Surgery)
• ACMBG “Asociacion de Cirugia Bariatrica y Metabolica de Guatemala” (Society for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery  of  Guatemala)
• FELAC: “Federacion Latino-Americana de Cirugia” (Latin American Federation of Surgery)
• SAGES: Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons (L.A.C.A.)
• SSAT: Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract
• ASMBS: American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
• IFSES: International Federation of Societies of Endoscopic Surgeons
• IFSO: American Society for Surgery of Obesity
• MACG: Master, American College of Gastroenterology
• FACS: Fellow, American College of Surgeons