Ricardo Nassar, M.D.

Dr. Nassar is a certified bariatric surgeon, with extensive experience in general surgery and patients with obesity. Dr. Nassar is fully bilingual and has performed more than 2,500 surgeries during 15 years of experience.

As both an experienced bariatric surgeon and director of prestigious bariatric surgery units, he has been a guest speaker at many international congresses on Laparoscopic Surgery and Bariatric Surgery in Latin America, Europe and the United States.

Assignments

• Director, Minimally Invasive Bariatric and General Surgery
  Hospital Universitario Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá
  Bogota, Colombia
• Director, Morbid Obesity Clinic
  Hospital Universitario Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá
  Bogota, Colombia
• Professor, General Surgery
  Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  Bogota, Colombia

Education

• General Surgery Specialist
  Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
  Bogota, Colombia
• Registrar Clinical Fellow
  Advanced Gastrointestinal Laparoscopic Surgery
  Ninewells University Hospital
  Dundee University, Scotland, U.K.
• Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri
  Gastric Band Certification for treatment of Morbid Obesity
  Nathan Zundel
• Hospital Universitario Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá
  Bogota, Colombia
• Gastric By Pass Certification for treatment of Morbid Obesity
  Sao Paulo, Brazil

Active memberships and affiliations

• Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES)
• International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity (IFSO)
• Latin American Surgery Federation (FELAC)
• Latin American Association of Endoscopic Surgery (ALACE)
• Colombian Surgery Association (CSA)

Congresses and training

Dr. Nassar has been invited to many international congresses on Laparoscopic Surgery and Bariatric Surgery:

• 16th FELAC Congress. Cartagena, Colombia. August 2005
• ACS Bariatric Surgery Pre Course. Speaker. Miami, Florida. October 2004
• 9th World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery. Cancun, Mexico. February 2004
• Advance Laparoscopic Surgery Symposium. Laparoscopic Centre of South Florida. July 2002
• European Association of Endoscopic Surgery Congress and practice. Ninewells Hospital and Medical School. Dundee, Scotland. UK. December 2001

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