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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

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.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

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.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 2007

Andres Hanssen, MD FACS

Society Memberships

  • Soc Venezolana de Cir
  • Soc of Am Gast End Surgs

Additional Information

Gender

Male

General Surgery

Corredor Universitario N° 1-850 Clinica Portoazul

Consultorio 411

Barranquilla

Colombia

Contact Information

Biography

General Surgery, Bariatric surgery, minimally Invasive surgery.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Bariatric (Severe Obesity) Procedures

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

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

  • abdominal pain
  • anti-reflux procedures
  • appendectomy
  • esophagus perforation
  • feeding tubes
  • fundoplication
  • fundoplication - laparoscopic
  • gastric cancer
  • gastroesophageal reflux disease
  • peritonitis
  • splenectomy

Gynecology Disorders/Procedures

Minimal Access Surgery

Minimally Invasive Procedures

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

  • anal cancer/tumors
  • basal cell cancer
  • biopsy of tumors
  • bone metastases
  • breast cancer
  • breast masses
  • colon cancer screening
  • colon/rectal cancer
  • esophagus cancer/tumors
  • fibroids
  • gastrointestinal cancer/tumors
  • melanoma
  • neuroblastoma
  • neurofibromatosis
  • ovarian cancer screening
  • ovarian cysts
  • pancreatic cancer/tumors
  • pelvic tumors
  • pituitary gland tumors
  • skin cancer
  • stomach cancer/tumors
  • thyroid cancer/nodules
  • uterine cancer/tumors
  • vaginal cancer
  • vulva cancer

Hospital Appointments

M P Carreno Hosp

Attending

Instituto Medico La Floresta

Caracas Venezuela,

Attending

01/1996—Present

Centro Medico Docente La Trinidad

Caracas Venezuela,

Courtesy

01/2010—Present

Clinica Sanitas Santa Paula

Caracas, FL

Attending

06/2014—Present

Academic Appointments

Venezuela

Clinical Assistant Professor