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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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ACS Fellow Since 2003

Ariel A. Ortiz Lagardere, MD FACS

Additional Information

Gender

Male

General Surgery

461 I Ave

Coronado, CA 92118

United States

Contact Information

Biography

Obesity Control Center Is the only Joint Commission International accredited standalone Bariatric and metabolic surgery center in Mexico. OCC has a over two decades of experience, specialized in Weight-loss surgery. Our expertise is complemented by our experience in Health Tourism and the traveling patient. Our state of the art hospital meets or exceeds all of the standards of excellence established for Bariatric Surgery in America. We have over 21000 successful U.S. and Canadian patients enjoying the benefits of surgical weight-loss. A team of experts in every area of weight-loss surgery including specialty in obese adolescents, revision of failed gastric by-pass and sleeve as well as failed gastric banding. Our plastic surgery team offers post weight-loss procedures, total body lift and other techniques.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Bariatric (Severe Obesity) Procedures

  • gastric banding
  • gastroplasty
  • laparoscopic gastric banding
  • laparoscopic gastric bypass
  • roux-en-Y gastric bypass

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • endoscopic surgery
  • laparoscopic surgery
  • microsurgery
  • video assisted thoracic surgery

Academic Appointments

University of Baja California Professor of Surgery, University Iberoamericana Director of Advanced Lap

Professor