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• Specialty in General Surgery. Universidad de Costa Rica. 1981 - 1984

• Postoperarive Intensive Care in Surgery - Baylor College of Medicine. Houston, TX. 1987-1988

• Intensive Care and Gastroenterology Surgery - Baylor College of Medicine. Houston, TX. 1990-1991

• Internship

  Liver Transplant - California Pacific Medical Center. San Francisco, CA. 1992

• Internship

  Trauma and Intensive Care - Oregon Health Sciences University. Oregon, United States. 1992

• Internship

  Pancreas and Kidney Transplantation - University of Minnesota, USA. 1993

• Internship

  Intensive Care - University of Texas, United States. 1994

• Internship

  Laparoscopic surgery - UNAM, Mexico. 1995

• Internship

  Total Nutritional Therapy (TNT) - Latin American Federation of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. Guatemala. 1997

• Internship

  Modern Techniques in the Teaching of Surgery - University of Toronto, Canada. 1998

• Internship

  Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery - Mexican Association of Endoscopic Surgery, Mexico D.F. 2000

• Internship

  Development of skills in clinical research - UNIBE, San Jose, Costa Rica. 2002

• Internship

  Prevention and fire fighting - Calderón Guardia Hospital. San Jose Costa Rica. 2003

• Internship

  Transplants - Carolina's Medical Center, North Carolina, United States. 2004

• Internship

  Update in advanced laparoscopic surgery - International College of Surgeons, Mexico D.F.2006

• Internship

  Abdominal organ transplantation - Hospital 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain. 2008

• Internship

  Science and practice of nutritional support - American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN). 2008

• Internship

  Gastrointestinal Surgery - Tokyo Women's University. Japan. 2009

• Internship

  Hepatobiliary surgery - Paul Brousse Hospital, Bile Hepato Center, Paris, France. 2013

• Physicians and Surgeons College of Costa Rica cod. MED2062Active

  Medic and Surgeon - Costa Rica

• Costa Rican Association of Surgery
• Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS)
• National Medical Union of Costa Rica
• National Academy of Medicine

• 2014 First Transplant of Small Intestine in Costa Rica - Direction School of Medicine of the UCR
• 2013 Acknowledgment for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Service
• 2012 Recognition: Liver Transplant Surgeries - HGG
• 2012 Recognition: by work - Hospital Clínica Católica
• 2011 Recognition: Development of Nutritional Support Unit - HGG
• 2011 Second place: Volunteer work - National Medical Congress
• 2004 Recognition: creation and development of Intermediate Surgery Care Unit - HGG
• 2002 Recognition: Institutional contribution in Parenteral Nutrition - Medical Assistant
• 2001 Recognition: Nutritional Support - Hospital Dr. R.A. Calderón Guardia
• 2001 Recognition: Renal Transplant - Hospital Dr. R.A. Calderón Guardia
• 1995 First Place volunteer work - National Medical Congress
• 1994 Recognition: Character of the year for the work in liver transplant program - La Nación Newspaper
• 1994 Recognition: Kidney Transplantation - Board of Directors and Management of the CCSS for Pancreas
• 1994 Recognition: Pancreas-Kidney Transplantation - University Council
• 1993 Recognition: Liver Transplantation - Rectory of Universidad de Costa Rica, Executive Presidency of the CCSS, Ministry of Science and Technology, College of Physicians and Surgeons
• Recognition: Brilliant Performance - Board of Directors, La Católica Hospital