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SPECIALTY: Laparoscopic and General Surgery

LANGUAGES SPOKEN:

• English
• Spanish

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

• 2004 University of Costa Rica in January
  • General Surgeon
• Salamanca University
  • Second year of his doctoral thesis (medical science investigation)
• Cendeis
  • Basic training and course work in laparascopic surgery procedures
• UNNE, Corrientes, Argentina
  • Advanced training and course work in laparascopic surgery procedures
• Panamá
  • Training and course work in gastric banding (Inhamed),
• New York, USA
  • Training and course work in gastric sleeve procedures
• Panamá
  • VAC
• ALACE 2006.
  • Post graduate training in bariatric surgery

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• March 2004- Present: General and bariatric surgeon at Hospital Clinica Biblica
• Coordinated the first training seminar for advanced laparascopic surgery procedures in San José, Costa Rica

MEMBERSHIPS & CERTIFICATES:

• College of Physicians and Surgeons
• Medical Union
  
• Society of Costa Rican Surgeons
  
• Latin American Association of Endoscopic Surgeons
  
• Association of International Surgeons
  
• International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity (IFSO)

Through Hospital Clinica Biblica Dr. Jacobo Zafrani often assists medical tourism patients with their bariatric surgery needs.  He understands the medical travel needs of his international patients.

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