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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 2013

Jose Luis de Souza Varela, MD FACS

Society Memberships

  • Coll Brasil de Cir

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Private practice (solo or small group)

General Surgery

Rua Pereira da Silva 660/601

Rio de Janeiro, RJ 22 221140

Brazil

Contact Information

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Bariatric (Severe Obesity) Procedures

  • laparoscopic gastric bypass

Abdomen and Digestion Disorder/Procedure

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

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

  • bile duct malignancies
  • bile duct surgery
  • biliary tract disease
  • gallbladder cancer
  • gallstone disease
  • hepatobiliary surgery
  • laparoscopic cholecystectomy
  • liver biopsy
  • liver surgery
  • liver/hepatic disease
  • pancreatic cancer
  • pancreatic cysts
  • pancreatitis

Hernia Procedures

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

Colon and Rectal Disorders/Cancer

  • colectomy
  • colon surgery
  • colon/rectal cancer
  • colostomy
  • Crohn's disease
  • diverticular disease
  • gastrointestinal bleeding
  • gastrointestinal cancer
  • irritable bowel syndrome
  • laparoscopic colon surgery
  • Meckel's diverticulum
  • spastic colon
  • stomach cancer

Minimally Invasive Procedures

  • laparoscopic surgery
  • robotic surgery

Surgical Oncology (Cancer/Tumors)

  • adrenal tumors
  • colon cancer/polyps
  • colon/rectal cancer
  • endocrine cancer
  • gastrointestinal cancer/tumors
  • ovarian cysts
  • pancreatic cancer/tumors
  • stomach cancer/tumors
  • thyroid cancer/nodules
  • uterine cancer/tumors

Hospital Appointments

Hospital Totalcor,

Rio de Janiero,

Senior Staff

03/2004—Present

Academic Appointments

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG) Faculdade de Medicina

Rio de Janeiro,

Other

03/2013—12/2015