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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.

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ACS Fellow Since 2022

Rodrigo Edelmuth, MD FACS

Society Memberships

  • Soc of Am Gast End Surgs
  • Soc for Surg Alim Tract

Additional Information

Gender

Male

General Surgery

Al Jau, 1905

Cj 54

São, Paulo, SP 01420

Brazil

Contact Information

Biography

Dr. Edelmuth holds a Gastrointestinal Surgery and General Surgery degree from São Paulo University Medical School (2014-2018) and has a postgraduate Leadership course from Harvard Medical School (2022). In 2021-2022 he joined Weill Cornell Medical College in New York as a Research Fellow. Dr. Edelmuth works at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein —ranked 22nd in the world by Newsweek in 2024 and the first hospital outside the United States to receive accreditation from the Joint Commission International (JCI), as a Surgeon and Medical Coordinator for the Surgical Department. Dr. Edelmuth is a Fellow at the American College o Surgeons, he is member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) and of the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT). In 2022 he received the SAGES Career Development Award.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Bariatric (Severe Obesity) Procedures

  • gastroplasty
  • laparoscopic gastric bypass

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

  • Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure
  • abdominal pain
  • adhesion removal
  • anti-reflux procedures
  • appendectomy
  • feeding tubes
  • fundoplication
  • fundoplication - laparoscopic
  • gastric cancer
  • gastroesophageal reflux disease
  • peptic ulcer disease
  • peritonitis
  • splenectomy

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

  • bile duct surgery
  • biliary tract disease
  • cholecystectomy
  • gallstone disease
  • hepatobiliary surgery
  • laparoscopic cholecystectomy
  • Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc
  • liver/hepatic disease
  • pancreatic cysts
  • pancreatitis

Hernia Procedures

  • abdominal hernia
  • epigastric hernia
  • femoral hernia
  • Hernia Procedures
  • inguinal hernia
  • laparoscopic hernia repair
  • umbilical hernia

Anal-rectal Disorders/Procedures

  • anal fissure
  • Anal-rectal Disorders/Procedures
  • hemorrhoid problems
  • rectal bleeding

Colon and Rectal Disorders/Cancer

  • anal abscess
  • colectomy
  • Colon and Rectal Disorders/Cancer
  • colon cancer screening
  • colon surgery
  • colon/rectal cancer
  • colonic polyps
  • colostomy
  • Crohn's disease
  • diverticular disease
  • gastrointestinal bleeding
  • gastrointestinal cancer
  • hemorrhoidectomy
  • ileostomy
  • intussusception
  • laparoscopic colon surgery
  • small bowel syndrome
  • stomach cancer
  • ulcerative colitis

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

  • colon cancer screening
  • colon cancer/polyps
  • colon/rectal cancer
  • gastrointestinal cancer/tumors
  • pancreatic cancer/tumors
  • stomach cancer/tumors

Pain

  • Management of Acute Pain