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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.

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.

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ACS Fellow Since 2013

Rafael Gonzalez Garcia, MD FACS

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Academic medical center

General Surgery

calle Polibio Diaz edificio GD3

apartmento B3, ensanche Evaristo Morales

Santo Domingo

Dominican Republic

Contact Information

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Bariatric (Severe Obesity) Procedures

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

Endocrine (Gland)

  • parathyroid surgery
  • thyroid nodules/cancer
  • thyroid surgery

Hernia Procedures

  • abdominal hernia
  • component separation
  • epigastric hernia
  • femoral hernia
  • inguinal hernia
  • laparoscopic hernia repair
  • paraesophageal hernia
  • umbilical hernia
  • ventral hernia

Diagnostic Imaging/procedures

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

  • biopsy of tumors
  • colon cancer screening
  • colon cancer/polyps
  • colon/rectal cancer
  • gastrointestinal cancer/tumors
  • stomach cancer/tumors
  • thyroid cancer/nodules

Hospital Appointments

Hospital Metropolitano de Santiago,

Santiago,

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

01/2003—Present

Academic Appointments

Universidad Tecnológica de Santiago Escuela de Medicina, Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo,

Assistant Professor

01/2001—Present