Dr. Hector Perez - Cancun WLS Surgeon

Dr. Hector Perez Corzo is a leading US-trained, board-certified bariatric surgeon in Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico. He has been practicing weight loss surgeries since 2006 and has significant global exposure since his educational and professional pursuits have taken him to several South American, North American, and European countries.

Dr. Perez has nearly 0% complications in over 3,000 surgeries performed in 10 years of practice. “Our expectation is to continue at the same rate,” said Dr. Perez while discussing weigh loss surgeries with our marketing head.

He further added: “I was always passionate about helping people to overcome obesity. After my medical internship at the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida and my four-year residency in Mexico City, I underwent 1-year training in bariatric surgery and decided to come down to Cancun to help those struggling with obesity.”

Dr. Perez is invited by various groups around the country to demonstrate the procedure involved in weight loss surgeries. “Unfortunately, in Mexico there aren’t as many bariatric surgeons as are needed. So many general surgeons are willing to take up weight loss surgeries. Mexico has mere 8-10 well-established programs in bariatrics that aren’t sufficient to absorb the demand for WLS training. I get invited by organizations around the country to teach bariatric surgery,” said the surgeon.

The following is his resume:

Board Certifications

Mexican Council of General Surgery, July 15, 2006; re-certification in 2012
Mexican College of Obesity Surgery and Metabolic Diseases in 2015

Memberships

International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders – 2008
Mexican Association of Endoscopic Surgery, A.C. – 2006
Mexican Association of General Surgery – 2009
Mexican College of Obesity Surgery and Metabolic Diseases – 2013

Work Experience

Chief Surgeon “Bariatric Medical Center Cancun”, Hospital Victoria, May 2008 – 2015
General Surgeon attending at HGZ no. 18 – Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Nov 2010 – 2015
Regional delegate of Quintana Roo. Mexican Association of Endoscopic Surgery, A.C. May 2009 – May 2010
Chief of Surgery “Specialty Clinic Churubusco” ISSSTE, June 2008 – Jan 2009
General Surgeon attending “National Medical Center”, ISSSTE, June 2007 – May 2008
General Surgeon attending “Regional Hospital Licenciado Adolfo López Mateos” ISSSTE, March 2006 – Sep 2007

Courses, Seminars and Lectures Conducted as a Professor

“Gastric Band still has indications” – Symposium on Obesity Surgery and Diabetes in Merida, Yucatan – October – 2014
“Gastric sleeve” and “Gastric Sleeve Rescue with Plicature” courses at 38th International Congress of General Surgery in Leon, Guanajuato. Oct 2014
“Coordinator of Postgraduate Course in Bariatric Surgery at XXII International Congress of the Mexican Association of Endoscopy in Mazatlán, Sinaloa. May 2013
“Coordinator Postgraduate Course of Bariatric Surgery” XXII International Congress of the Mexican Association of Endoscopic. Mazatlán, Sinaloa, May 2013
“Gastric sleeve Complications” XXII International Congress of the Mexican Association of Endoscopic in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, May 2013
“Gastric Band as a Rescue Procedure” XXII International Congress of the Mexican Association of Endoscopic – Mazatlán, Sinaloa, May 2013
“Professor in Postgraduate Course Bariatric Surgery and Endoluminal: Gastric Band as Revision Surgery” – XIII World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco – April 2012
“Rescue of Gastric Bypass with Lap Band” – XX International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery, Los Cabos, Baja California Sur – 2011
“What to do when the Gastric Band Fails” – Postgraduate Course in Bariatric and Metabolic Disorders – XXX International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery. Los Cabos, Baja California Sur – May 2011
Coordinator of the Postgraduate Course in Bariatric Surgery and Obesity and Metabolic Surgery at XIX International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery at Cancún – Quintana Roo, May 2010
Demonstration of Obesity Surgery at XIX International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery at Cancún – Quintana Roo, May 2010
“Metabolic Surgery: Current State in the World. Indications and Technique of Gastric Band Placement.” at the National Congress of General Surgery Acapulco Guerrero in November, 2009
Postgraduate Course in LAP Band and Intragastric Balloon at XVIII International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery – Acapulco, Guerrero in August, 2009
“Indications and Technique of Gastric Band Placement” and “Adjustable Gastric Band Complications” at XVIII International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in Acapulco, Guerrero, August 2009
“Diagnostic Laparoscopy in Abdominal Trauma” at VI Symposium of Trauma at Mérida Yucatán in September 2009
Professor of International Workshop of Gastric Sleeve and Metabolic Surgery at the National Medical Center on November 20 at ISSSTE, Distrito Federal, México – April 14 – 16, 2008

Recognition

First position in Video Presentation on “Bypass Rescue with Lap Band” at XIX International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery held in Cancún, Quintana Roo in May, 2010
Graduate with Honors in General Surgery at Regional Hospital Lic. Adolfo López Mateos, ISSSTE, México D.F. 2006

Participation in International Congresses and Courses

38th International Congress of General Surgery held in Leon, Guanajuato in October, 2014
XVIX World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders in Montreal, Canada in August, 2014
XXIII International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery held in Veracruz in May 2014
37 International Congress of General Surgery in Acapulco, Guerrero in November 2013
XVIII World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders in Istanbul, Turkey in August, 2013
XXII International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in Mazatlán, Sinaloa held in May 2013
36 International Congress of General Surgery” in Cancun in November, 2012
XVII World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders held in New Delhi, India in September, 2012
XVIII World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery held in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco in April, 2012
XII International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery held in Veracruz in 2004
XVI World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders in Hamburg, Germany in September 2011
XX International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur in May 2011
34 International Congress of General Surgery in Guadalajara, Jalisco in November 2010
XV World Congress of The International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders in Los Angeles, U.S.A in September 2010
XVIX International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in Cancún held in May 2010
International Congress of General Surgery in Acapulco Guerrero – November 2009
XIV World Congress of The International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders in Paris, France in September 2009
XVIII International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in Acapulco Guerrero in August 2009
XI National Congress of Obesity Surgery and Metabolic Disorders in Cancún in July 2009
XIII World Congress of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO) in Buenos Aires, Argentina in September 2008
XVII International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery held in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco in May 2008
“Vascular Microsurgery”, CMN at ISSSTE, México D.F. in November 2005
Postgraduate Course of Hiatal Hernia at XIV International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery in Puerto Vallarta, Jal – 2005
IX World Congress of Endoscopic Surgery held in Cancun in 2004
National Reunión of the Mexican Association of Endoscopic Surgery held in México D.F. in 2003
Clinical Research Skills Workshop for Investigators held in México D.F. in 2003
Rotation Shouldice Clinic in Toronto, Canada in 2003

Research

Thesis work in General Surgery on “Diagnostic Utility of Percutaneous Transhepatic Cholangiography versus Cholangiopancreatography Retrograde Endoscopy in Biliary Tree Lesion” in Mexico DF
“The Hepatitis C” Journal Facultad Medicina UNAM, Vol, 46. No 5 Sept-Oct 2003, México D.F.

Other Courses

United States Medical License Examination Step 1 and 2 – Benjamin Franklin Library, Mexico City, México in 2001
Medical Internship “Rotations in Pediatric Endocrinology, Family medicine, Surgery-Transplant, Internal Medicine Wards, Cardiology Teaching Laboratory
Pediatric-Gastro & Nutrition”, University of Miami School of Medicine, E.U.A. 2000
“Advanced Cardiac Life Support”, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami Florida, E.U.A, in March 2000
“Advanced Trauma Life Support” University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami Florida, E.U.A, in January 2000