Dr. Santiago Horgan, Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery, is an internationally recognized expert in robot-assisted surgery and other minimally invasive surgical techniques. He is a pioneer in the surgical treatment of morbid obesity as well as a specialist in surgery and physiology of the esophagus.
Dr. Horgan is also Director of the Center for Treatment of Obesity at UCSD. Here, he is establishing the first program in San Diego to offer the new, minimally invasive outpatient procedure called the LAP-BAND Adjustable Gastric Banding System. The LAP-BAND system is the only weight loss surgery approved by the United States FDA.
Before he joined the UCSD Department of Surgery as Professor of Clinical Surgery in 2006, Dr. Horgan was Director of the Minimally Invasive Surgery and Robotic Surgery Department and Co-Director of the Swallowing Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was also Director of the Minimally Invasive Bariatric Center in Chicago. In 2005, he was named one of America’s Top Doctors by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.
Dr. Horgan has advanced fellowship training in surgery and physiology of the esophagus and in laparoscopic surgery. He completed his M.D. degree, internship, and surgical residency at the Buenos Aires University School of Medicine in Argentina. Dr. Horgan speaks both English and Spanish.
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