Aniceto Baltasar
San Jorge Clinic, Spain
Biography
Dr. Aniceto Baltasar is one of the leaders of the Spanish and Latin American bariatric communities. He was born in Guadalupe, Cáceres, Spain, site of a fifteenth century medical school where the first autopsy was done (with the Pope’s permission). Dr. Baltasar attended Madrid Complutense University Medical School (1961–1967). He passed the EFMG examination and did his internship training at Good Samaritan Hospital in 1968 in West Islip, New York, and received his surgical residency training at The Long Island College Hospital in New York City from 1969 to 1974. He has been the Chief of the General Surgery Department ever since, at BVirgen de los Lirios^ Hospital in Alcoy, Spain. In 1978, Dr. Baltasar received US Board Certification in General Surgery, and in 1982, he became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS).
Abstract
Abstract : Stapling the bougie in Vertical Sleeve-forming Gastrectomy. Video