Education

• Graduate of the UABC Faculty of Medicine in Mexicali, Mexico
• Social service internships followed in Mexicali and Ensenada
• General Surgery training at Hospital General de Zacatecas
• Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery and Bariatric Surgery training in Tijuana
• Fellowship in Gastric Banding and Gastric Balloon

Conferences attended

• Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery and Obesity Surgery, Tijuana 2007
• Gastric Banding, Tijuana 2007
• International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery, Veracruz, 2007
• Diagnostic Endoscopy for the General Surgeon, 2007
• Metabolic Surgery, Tijuana, 2007
• Gastric Derivation (Gastric Bypass), Ensenada, 2007

Memberships and certification

• Certification in Gastric Band Placement and Intragastric Ball, Guadalajara
• Member of the Mexican Association of Endoscopic Surgery
• Member of the Mexican School of Endoscopic Surgery and Metabolic Surgery and Obesity

Dr. Marco Sariñana has performed more than 600 endoscopies, 350 colonoscopies and 1,100 weight loss surgeries among which gastric band, gastric ballonn, gastric sleeve and gastric bypass.