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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 2010

Ricardo Espinoza, MD FACS

Society Memberships

  • Soc de Cir de Chile
  • Intl Soc, Surg/Soc Int Ch

Additional Information

Gender

Male

General Surgery

Boyaca 2111

Vitacura, Santiago

Chile

Contact Information

Biography

Medical Doctor (1980), specialist in General and Digestive Surgery. Master of Surgery at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (1984). He has been a Professor in undergraduate and graduate schools for over 30 years in leading institutions in Chile. Areas of focus: hepato-bilio-pancreatic surgery, digestive pathologies and abdominal emergency surgeries. Medical investigations with more than 120 articles on indexed journals and various book chapters. Book editor of three comprehensive medical books: Abdomen Agudo, Manual de Urgencias y Complicaciones en Cirugía. Visiting Professor in leading medical institutions (Johns Hopkins Hospital; Massachussets General Hospital; School of Medicine of Universidad de Navarra, Spain). International Guest Scholar by the American College of Surgeons in 2020. Dean of Medical School in Universidad de los Andes, Chile, 2004-2009. Medical-Director, Clinica Universidad de los Andes, Chile, 2010-2016. Other areas of interest: surgery quality improvement; history of the medicine; bioethics.

Hospital Appointments

Hosp Parroquial (San Bernardo)

Attending

Academic Appointments

Los Andes

Professor