Bariatric

Dr. Jacobo Zafrani

EDUCATION
Doctor of Medicine, Cum Laude Probatus at the Autonomous University of Central America. Specialist in General Surgery, graduation honors, Costa Rica University. Presents the second year of doctoral research into diseases of health, Salamanca University. USMLE I - 7 week course (AMA Category I). Initial course of care and support of advanced patient polytraumatized, Santo Tomas Hospital. Ongoing management of the patient hospitalized with nutritional support, General Hospital Nicolás Solano. CPR course adult, child and baby, Red Cross and AHA. Course of ultrasound in trauma, Pan American Trauma Society. Current research methods in human disease, Costa Rica University. Course videolaparoscopy basic CENDEISSS. Total current nutrition therapy, CENDEISSS. Course of ethics and professional responsibility of the medical College of Physicians and Surgeons. Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery Course, Corrientes, Argentina. Laparoscopic Surgery Course in Colon and Rectum, Corrientes, Argentina. Training course in Advanced Endoscopic Surgery, Costa Rica. Course Sleeve Gastrectomy, New York. Postgraduate Course in Colon and Rectal Surgery Laparoscopic, ALACE, Miami. Postgraduate Course in New Trends and Controversies in Laparoscopic Surgery, ALACE, Miami. Graduate Course of Bariatric Surgery Contemporary ALACE, Miami.

EXPERIENCE
General Medical in Santo Tomas Hospital, Panama. General practitioner at the Nicolás Solano Hospital, Panama. Medical Center Emergency Medical Paitilla, Panama. General practitioner in ALERT S.A., associated with military bases in the Panama Canal. Specialty Residency in General Surgery, San Juan de Dios Hospital, Costa Rica. Specialty Residency in General Surgery, Department of Surgery G1, Mexico Hospital, Costa Rica. Specialist in General Surgery at Royal Center and Medical Center Paitilla, Panama. Specialist General Surgery Clinic in San Fernando, Panama. Specialist in General Surgery, San Rafael de Alajuela Hospital, Costa Rica. Specialist in General Surgery at Clinic Biblical Hospital, Costa Rica.

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
First International Symposium of Interventional Cardiology Mount SINAB Medical Center, 1993. Scientific seminars Santo Tomas Hospital, 1997. Medical-scientific days of Nicholas General Hospital A. Solano, 1998. Seminar Panamanian Society of Trauma, 1998. XIII Pan American Congress on Trauma, 2000. LXIV National Health Congress, 2002. XV Latin American Congress of Surgery, 2003. LXV National Health Congress, 2003. VII Latin American Congress of Endoscopic Surgery, ALACE, 2006, Miami, Florida.

PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH
Burn, UACA student magazine, 1996. Meckel's diverticulum, Costa Rica University, 2004.

MEMBER
Society of Surgeons of Costa Rica. International Society of surgeons. Member of ALACE. Professor of Postgraduate General Surgery, Cendeiss, UCR. Course Coordinator of the first update in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery, 2006, Costa Rica.