Dr. Homero Rivas
Address: P O Box 505004, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Gender: Male
About the Doctor / Professional
Dr. Homero Rivas is a Professor of Surgery and Associate Dean of Innovation and the Future at the Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Healthcare in Dubai. Formerly, he was Associate Professor of Surgery, and the Director of Innovative Surgery at Stanford University.
As a digestive and bariatric surgeon, he has 18 years of experience. After his training in general surgery at the University of North Dakota, he completed two one-year fellowships in Minimally Invasive Surgery at the University of Louisville and also at the Hospital Clinic in Barcelona, Spain. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery.
Dr. Rivas is a pioneer and leader in numerous state-of-the art innovative techniques of minimal access surgery including: scarless surgery, natural orifice surgery, magnetic surgery, Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) for achalasia, robotic surgery and more. He has been involved in minimal access surgery both in the US and internationally in nearly all continents as a surgeon-in-training, a practicing surgeon and also as teacher of other expert surgeons.
His core competencies are:
- Laparoscopic Digestive and Bariatric Surgery, Gastrectomy, Gastric Bypass, revisional bariatric surgery, Cholecystectomy, Appendectomy, Colorectal surgery, solid organ surgery, endoscopic and surgical management of achalasia, bariatric endoscopy, advanced GI Endoscopy
- Single port surgery
- Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy POEM for Achalasia
- Robotic Surgery
- Digital Health
Residency: University of Louiseville, USA
- Currently associated with Mediclinic City Hospital, Dubai & Mediclinic Parkview Hospital, Dubai, UAE as Digestive and Bariatric Laparoscopic Surgeon
- Professor of Surgery and Associate Dean of Innovation and the Future at the Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Healthcare in Dubai, UAE
- Associate Professor of Surgery, and the Director of Innovative Surgery at Stanford University, USA
- Over 18 years of experience as a Digestive & Bariatric Surgeon; especially in Minimally Invasive Surgery both in the US and internationally in nearly all continents.
- Cholecystectomy
- Gastric Bypass
- Laparoscopic Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
- Sleeve Gastrectomy
- Achalasia
- Appendectomy
- Bariatric Surgery
- Cholecystectomy
- Colorectal Surgery
- Endoscopy
- Gastric Bypass
- Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy
- Laparoscopic Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM)
- Robotic Surgery
- Appendectomy
- Bariatric Surgery
- Cholecystectomy
- Colorectal Surgery
- Gastrectomy
- General Surgery Consultation
- Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Robotic Surgery
- Fellow of the American College of Surgeons
- Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
- American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
- European Association for Endoscopic Surgery
- Society of Surgery for the Alimentary Tract
- American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
- Honorary Fellow of the Brazilian College of Surgeons
- Honorary Fellow of the Brazilian College of Digestive Surgery