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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

Gezzer Ortega, MD

Society Memberships

  • Society of Black Academic Surgeons
  • Assn for Acad Surg

Additional Information

Type of Practice

Academic medical center

General Surgery

Contact Information

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Bariatric (Severe Obesity) Procedures

  • abdominoplasty
  • biliopancreatic diversion
  • gastric banding
  • gastroplasty
  • jejunoilial bypass
  • laparoscopic gastric banding
  • laparoscopic gastric bypass
  • roux-en-Y gastric bypass

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

  • abdominal pain
  • abdominoplasty
  • adhesion removal
  • anti-reflux procedures
  • appendectomy
  • esophagus perforation
  • feeding tubes
  • fundoplication
  • fundoplication - laparoscopic
  • gastric cancer
  • gastroesophageal reflux disease
  • malrotation
  • peptic ulcer disease
  • peritonitis
  • peritonitis
  • splenectomy

Pediatric Surgery

  • abdominal pain
  • bile duct surgery
  • feeding tubes
  • hepatobiliary surgery
  • inguinal hernia
  • intestinal failure management
  • intussusception
  • pyloric stenosis
  • umbilical hernia

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • bone marrow aspiration/biopsy
  • cryotherapy
  • doppler ultrasound
  • embolization procedures
  • endoscopic surgery
  • fine needle aspiration/biopsy
  • laparoscopic surgery
  • laser surgery
  • microsurgery
  • radiosurgery
  • robotic surgery
  • tumor ablation
  • video assisted thoracic surgery

Hospital Appointments

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Boston,

Physician

07/2018—Present

Academic Appointments

Harvard Medical School

Boston, MA

Assistant Professor

07/2018—Present