Lap band Doctor Arturo Rodriguez is a graduate of the University of Monterrey, in 1981, and a Postgraduate Medical Review Education in 1985, Santa Monica. He became a General Surgeon at the Navy Medical Center of Mexico with MB+ examinations.

It was there that Dr. Rodriguez became Chief of Surgery and continued to work there 10 years as a Marine Surgeon. He is certified by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates ECFMG and is certified as a Diplomat in Laparoscopic Surgery, which is not often obtained among surgeons that are looking for a higher level of credentials, the one that is given by American Authorities and he is also a Diplomat in Laparascopic Surgery and he has a certification of the Mexican Asociation of General Surgeon.

As a world-renown lap band surgeon, he teaches and lectures other medical surgeons. As the premier lap band surgeon, he uses the most up-to-date procedures that are used in Laparoscopic Adjustable Silicone Gastric Banding (LASGB)-lap band surgery.

He is the Founder and a Member of the most experienced Medical group in Mexico, performing lap band surgery on morbid obesity sufferers.

As a twelve years lapband surgeon, he has handled more than 4,500 Lap band procedures. Because of this innovative lapband surgery, he was certified in 1999 as a Professor for OBTECH, the Swedish adjustable gastric band.

As a head lapband surgeon, Dr. Rodriguez leads a team of surgeons, nurses, nutritionists and staff. Their primary goal is to help people overcome a life-long battle with obesity through lapband surgery.

He also specializes in complications that are a result of Morbid Obesity such as Hernias of the Abdominal Wall, colitis, diverticulitis, etc.

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