I studied to be a doctor with the aim of serving others, and the best way to do it is to help you preserve your health or, failing that, provide comfort and relief.
I love putting my knowledge into practice using state-of-the-art technology, in order to provide the patient with an accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment.

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• Specialty in Gastroenterology. Universidad de Costa Rica. February 2010
• Doctor and Surgery. Universidad de Costa Rica. February 2004

• Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy - Università Cattolica del Sacro Couore, Rome. 2013

• WEO International School of Endoscopic Ultrasound

  November 2020

• STAR Endoscopic Suture ASGE Course

  April 2018

• Interventional Endoscopic Ultrasound Master Course

  April 2017

• Masters Course in Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection - American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE)

  April 2016

• Intragastric Balloon Placement, Sander Clinic, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

  February 2015

• Certification in NBI and Advanced Optical Endoscopy. Universidad de la Sabana, Bogotá

  May 2011

• Young Clinicians Program. World Gastroenterology Organization

  November 2009

• Internship

  University of Minnesota Medical Center, 2009

• Physicians and Surgeons College of Costa Rica cod. MED7973Active

  Medic and Surgeon - Costa Rica

• Costa Rican Association of Gastroenterology and Digestive Endoscopy
• American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

• 2010 Graduation with Honors. Specialty of Gastroenterology, Universidad de Costa Rica
• 2003 Graduation with Honor Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery

• Expositor Congreso Mundial de Endoscopia Digestiva 2020
• PERORAL ENDOSCOPIC MYOTOMY (POEM), PERFORMED WITH A NEW ACCESSORY FOR BLUNT DISSECTION OF THE SUBMUCOSAL TUNNEL. Program No. P1387. World Congress of Gastroenterology at ACG2017 Meeting Abstracts. Orlando, FL: American College of Gastroenterology.
• ENDOSCOPIC RESTORATION OF COMPLETELY TRANSECTED AND PROLAPSED COMMON BILE DUCT. VIDEOGIE. Volumen 3, No12, 2018, 384 – 385. Abstracto ganador del tercer lugar de la World Cup of Endoscopy. DDW. 2018
• SUCCESFUL RETRIEVAL OF A PROXIMALLY MIGRATED PANCREATIC STENT BY DIGITAL PANCREATOSCOPY. Endoscopy 2019. S1, S110
• SEGURIDAD DE LA SEDACIÓN CON PROPOFOL ADMINISTRADO POR GASTROENTEROLOGOS EN ENDOSCOPIA DIGESTIVA. Acta Médica Costarricense. Vol 61,(2), 68-72
• HEPATOGASTRIC ANASTOMOSIS USING A NOVEL HYBRID METAL STENT. Abstracto aceptado para presentación oral en ENDO 2020 (Congreso Mundial de Endoscopia Digestiva)
• SUBMUCOSAL TUNNELING ENDOSCOPIC RESECTION OF A GIANT SUBCARDIAL LEIOMYOMA. Abstracto aceptado para presentación oral en ESGE Days (Congreso Europeo de Endoscopia Digestiva)
• PANCREATIC METASTASIS FROM MALIGNANT MELANOMA: NOT ALL THAT GLITERS IS GOLD. Case Reports in Gastroenterology. IN PRESS
• Ponente Congreso de la Sociedad Venezolana de Endoscopia Digestiva (SOVED) 2019
• Elkholy S, El-Sherbiny M, Delano-Alonso R, Herrera-Esquivel JJ, Valenzuela-Salazar C, Rodriguez-Parra A, Del Rio-Suarez I, Vargas-Madrigal J, Akar T, Günay S, Houmani Z, Abayli B, Elkady MA, Alzamzamy A, Wahba M, Madkour A, Mahdy RE, Essam K, Khashab MA. Peroral endoscopic myotomy as treatment for Zenker's diverticulum (Z-POEM): a multi-center international study. Esophagus. 2021 Jul;18(3):693-699.
• Expositor Congreso de la Sociedad de Gastroenterologia de Nuevo León. 2020