The doctor

Dr. M. Enrique Guzmán García

Aesthetic and Reconstructive Plastic Surgeon, with prior training in General Surgery. Practising in Chihuahua, Mexico, at Hospital Sierra Alta.

Training

Fellowship

Aesthetic and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery — Instituto Jalisciense de Cirugía Reconstructiva "Dr. José Guerrerosantos", accredited by the University of Guadalajara. 2009–2012.

Training

Residency

General Surgery — Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición "Salvador Zubirán", Mexico City. 2003–2007.

Training

Medical school

Doctor of Medicine — Autonomous University of Baja California, School of Medicine, Mexicali. 1996–2000.

Licences and board certification

  • Medical3794112
  • Specialty5588793
  • Board2343 · Mexican Board of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery

Any Mexican medical licence can be verified in the SEP national registry. Ask for it — with any surgeon.

Memberships and volunteer work

Member of the Mexican Association of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery.

Volunteers with Operation Smile, operating on patients with cleft lip and palate at no cost.

Honours: honourable mention in the General Surgery board examination, chief resident, honourable mention and highest score in the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery examination.

Recovery room
Judgment

Not every consultation ends in surgery

Some patients are better off waiting, losing weight first, treating a medical condition — or simply not having surgery. Saying so is part of the job, even when it means losing the case.

  • Conditions treated. Keloid and hypertrophic scars, gigantomastia, moles and skin lesions, basal cell skin cancer, cleft lip and palate, burns, lipomas, bulbous nose, polydactyly.
  • Languages. Spanish and English.