Alejandro Lopez Ortega, M.D.

Dr. Alejandro Ortega is a bariatric and weight loss surgeon. Dr. Ortega has 16 years of experience performing Lap-Band and other weight loss surgery. Currently 68 of our members have Dr. Ortega listed as their Lap Band Surgeon.

EDUCATION Medicine. Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud (CUCS). Universidad de Guadalajara. Medical Degree (M.D.) Obtaining 91.0 average. Degree: Excellent Academic performance. Option: Degree by Average. Rotatory boarding school Hospital General Regional 46. June 2001 to June 2002. With 9.0 average Social Service Medical Research; Unidad de Investigación Médica en Epidemiología Clínica Orientación Cirugía Centro Medico Nacional de Occidente IMSS Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico January 2002-2003 Approval of the National Examination of Medical Residences. General surgery. Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico Specialization in General Surgery Centro Medico Nacional de Occidente. IMSS March 2004-Febrero 2008 Rotation on the 2nd year if General Surgery Cook County Hospital Chicago Il. Esophageal, Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery On charge: Dr Phillipe Donahue Social Service of Speciality in General Surgery Medical Research. Centro Médico Nacional de Occidente Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico March 2007-August 2007 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member, Mexican Board of Surgery (CMCG) From 2008 Member, Mexican Association of Surgery (AMCG) From 2008 Member, Mexican Association of Endoscopic Surgery (AMCE) From 2008 Member, Mexican College of Obesity Surgery. (CMCO) From 2010 TRAINING Practical Theoretical course of Basic Endoscopic Surgery 2004 Curricular value 200Hrs. Guaranteed by the Mexican Association of Endoscopic Surgery and by the IMSS Graduated in Laparoscopic Surgery and Bariatric Surgery 2008 Tijuana BC. Clinica 1 of the IMSS Curricular value 420Hrs. Guaranteed by the Mexican Association of Endoscopic Surgery and by the IMSS Training in Laparoscopic Lap Band 2008 Tijuana BC. Clinica 1 of the IMSS Guaranteed by Lap-Band like Surgeon Certificate on Laparoscopic positioning of Gastric Band by ALLERGAN Training in Metabolic Surgery and Sleeve Gastrectomy 2008 Tijuana BC Clinica 1 of the IMSS Guaranteed by the Mexican Association of Endoscopic Surgery and by the IMSS PUBLICATIONS IN INDEXED MAGAZINES Cervical esophagogastrostomy dehiscence after gastric pull-up for type I esophageal atresia. Case report of a patient successfully treated with fibrin glue and a review of the literature. López Ortega A, Avalos González J, Muciño Hernández MI, Larios Arceo F, Saldaña Cortés JA, González Ojeda A. Rev Gastroenterol Mex. 2003 Oct-Dec;68(4):288-92. Fibrin glue as adjuvant treatment for gastrocutaneous fistula after gastrostomy tube removal. González-Ojeda A, Avalos-González J, Muciño-Hernández MI, López-Ortega A, Fuentes-Orozco C, Sánchez-Hochoa M, Anaya-Prado R, Arenas-Márquez H. Endoscopy. 2004 Apr;36(4):337-41 Effectiveness of the Dressings of Silver Nanocristals, versus the Conventional Treatment, in the Control of Infection of the Defects of Wall Generated by the Open Abdomen. Hermosillo SJM, Osuna-Rubio J, Lopez-Ortega A, Ramirez-Casillas V. Cirujano General. Vol 27 No. 4, Sup 1. Oct-Dic 2005 p 158 L-alanyl-L-glutamine-supplemented parenteral nutrition decreases infectious morbidity rate in patients with severe acute pancreatitis. Fuentes-Orozco C, Cervantes-Guevara G, Muciño-Hernández I, López-Ortega A, Ambriz-González G, Gutiérrez-de-la-Rosa JL, Gómez-Herrera E, Hermosillo-Sandoval JM, González-Ojeda A. JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr. 2008 Jul-Aug;32(4):403-11. Association between wound size after open cholecystectomy with severity of iatrogenic biliary tract lesions. Jacqueline Osuna-Rubio, José Manuel Hermosillo-Sandoval, Germán López-Guillén, Alejandro Maciel-Miranda, Clotilde Fuentes-Orozco, Andrea Socorro Alvarez-Villaseñor, Alejandro González-Ojeda, Alejandro López-Ortega.. Gaceta Médica de México. 2008; 144(3) RECOGNITION By his participation like instructor of VII the Practical Theoretical Course of the Endoscopic Surgery. March-August 2005. Curricular value 200Hrs. Guaranteed by the Mexican Association of Endoscopic Surgery and the Mexican Institute of the Social Insurance. CERTAINTY By to have credited satisfactorily the twelve levels that integrate the program of GENERAL ENGLISH. Covering a total of 480 hours. Guadalajara Jalisco November of 1999. Dominion of the language in 80% AWARDS Obtained the Second Place with the work: Impact of I deposit of fibrous weave in the liver of patients with injury of biliary routes. In VII the Congress the International “Medicine Advances Civil Hospitals 2005”. Prize and financing by CONACYT for the development of the work with the title: “Effectiveness of the Dressings of Silver Nanocristals, versus the Conventional Treatment, in the Control of Infection of the Defects of Wall Generated by the Open Abdomen”. At the moment still developing. CONTINUING EDUCATION 89th Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons Chicago, Il, USA October 2003. 92nd Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons Chicago, Il, USA October 2006. 95th Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons Chicago, Il, USA October 2009. 24th Annual Meeting American Society for Bariatric Surgery San Diego, CA, USA 2007 1st International Course of Metabolic Surgery (Surgical Management of Diabetes Mellitus) Tijuana, B.C., México, 2007 XVI International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery Veracruz, Ver. México, 2007 XVII International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco Mex. 2008. 26th Annual Meeting American Society for Bariatric Surgery Grapevine, Tx, USA 2009. XIX International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery, Cancun, Quintana Roo. Mex, 2010. 27th Annual Meeting American Society for Bariatric Surgery, Las Vegas, Nv, USA 2010. XXXIV International Congress of General Surgery, Guadalajara Jal, Mex, 2010.