Another 12th WIMC Keynote Lecture will be given by Prof. Homero Rivas.

Homero Rivas, MD, MBA, FACS, FASMBS is an Assistant Professor of Surgery, and the Director of Innovative Surgery at Stanford University. He is also the Co-Director of the Stanford Fellowship in Minimally invasive Surgery. As a digestive and bariatric surgeon, he has 15 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. He is a pioneer and leader in numerous state-of-the art innovative techniques of minimal access surgery including: scarless surgery; natural orifice surgery; robotic surgery, and more. He successfully implemented a program for Per Oral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) for achalasia at Stanford, and presently he is one of few surgeons in the US doing this sophisticated technique. He has been involved in minimal access surgery both nationally 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. Dr. Rivas is the Co-Chair of the International Committee for the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, and he has been inducted as Honorary Fellow for both, the Brazilian College of Surgeons and the Brazilian College of Digestive Surgery.

Additionally, Dr. Rivas has been involved in Digital Health and Telemedicine for many years. He has several research projects using wearables to improve safety in the operating room, medical simulation and education implementing augmented and virtual reality, among others. He is a strong proponent of novel technologies such as 3D printing, Drones, artificial intelligence engines, etc., in healthcare. He is a co-director of Stanford’s massive-open-online-course on mHealth, with over 20,000 registered students from all over the world. He is a Senior Fellow with the Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH) at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is advocate of Hispanics in the USA and he champions mHealth and telemedicine among them and internationally. He is a founding member and Vice-President of the Society of Wearable Technology in Healthcare (WATCH). Dr. Rivas holds an MBA from the Cox School of Business at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX.

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