Dr. Alberto Michel
Board certified bariatric surgeon.
Professor of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery at the Autonomous University of Baja California and IFSO Latin America.
Vocational training
- General Medicine 2000-2006 at UABC Tijuana.
- Specialty in General Surgery 2007-2011. HGZ16-UMAE 71 Torreón Coahuila UAC.
Specialties
- Mini Fellow in adjustable gastric band, November 2010, Angeles City Hospital.
- Postgraduate Diploma in Theoretical and Practical Bariatric Surgery, February to September 2011, HGZ16 IMSS Torreón, Mexico, Autonomous University of Coahuila.
- Advanced Course in Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery at IRCAD. Barretos, Brazil, July 2011.
- Metabolic Surgery Training. Oswaldo Cruz Hospital, Dr. Garrido-Almino Cardoso. October-November 2011, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- Basic and Advanced Skills Course in Laparoscopic Surgery. November 2014. Querétaro, Mexico.
- Advanced course in bariatric, metabolic and endoscopic surgery. IRCAD, December 2015. Strasbourg, France.
- Master in upper and lower digestive endoscopy. University of Strasbourg, France. From December 2016 to December 2017.
- Training in upper and lower digestive endoscopy at HGZ35 IMSS Ciudad Juárez, from November 2015 to April 2016.
- Master of Science in Minimally Invasive Bariatric Surgery. Duke University, Florida. June 2017.
Course
- Surgery for the treatment of morbid obesity. Mexican Congress of General Surgery, Guadalajara 2010.
- Endoscopy and surgery. International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery. May 2014, Veracruz, Mexico.
- Bariatric endoscopy. National Congress of Obesity Surgery and Metabolic Diseases. Leon, Guanajuato. 2014.
- Advanced bariatric endoscopy, theoretical-practical course. BCS July 2015. Latin American Congress of Obesity Surgery and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO).
- Artificial nutritional support in patients undergoing complicated bariatric surgery, July 2015. Los Cabos, BCS (IFSO).
Congress
- International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery. Mexico from 2011 to 2023.
- International Congress of General Surgery from 2010 to 2015.
- National Congress on Obesity and Metabolic Diseases. CMCOEM Mexico from 2014 to 2023.
- Regional Forum on Metabolic Surgery, Hermosillo, Sonora 2014.
- Obesity Society and American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Meeting. November 2-6, 2015. Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Obesity Society and American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Meeting. June 2017. San Diego, California, USA.
- IFSO LONDON-SEPT 2016.
- IFSO MIAMI AUGUST 2022.
Published articles
- 10 research papers presented at national and international conferences. 2011-2023.