Dr. Roberto Gallardo Díaz ( Founder )

Dr. Roberto Gallardo Díaz
( Founder )

With a trajectory as surgeon for more than 25 years, he believes that surgery is the most invasive procedure that a human body can receive.

Dr. Gallardo Díaz has a specialization in general surgery, a subspecialization in video endoscopic surgery, and a subspecialization in mini laparoscopic surgery. The last one from the prestigious University of Pernambuco, Brasil.

Roberto Gallardo Díaz is also:

Senior Junior of Hospital Nuestra Señora del Pilar since the year of 1994. His experience includes general surgery, laparoscopy, mini laparoscopy surgery and video endoscopy.
During the last 10 years (from 1986 to 1996), he performed diverse posts in the Surgery Department of Instituto Guatemalteco de Seguridad Social (Social Security Guatemalan Institute).
Member of the International Board of Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons since February 2010.
Member of Latin America Association of Endoscopic Surgery, and the Association of Surgeons of Guatemala. President of both associations from 2008 to 2011.
Up to date he has performed more than 7,000 surgeries, those of which 2,000 are Mini Laparoscopic Surgeries.
He has participated in more than 85 conferences, courses, symposiums and semminars of continuos medical education, since the year 1981, up to date.
He has been a national and interntional speaker since the year of 1996 up to date, in more than 50 occasions.

He has carried out more than 15 medical publications at a national and international level, among them:

Elaboration of an Apendicitis Management Protocol – Work performed at General Hospital of Common Disease of Social Security Guatemalan Institute, (1989).
Experience of the Mini Laparoscopic Surgery in Guatemala for the XXXVIII National Congress of Surgery (2012), and the Magazine of Guatemalan Surgery Association.
Mini Laparoscopy gaininig adherents as instruments continue to improve que es una publicación del la Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons en Septiembre 2015.
Presentation of a Ted Talk during the Minimally Invasive Surgery Week in New York USA, September 2015.

He counts with seven prestigious recognitions,
both nationally and internationally:

Universitary Recognition as General Surgeon by the School of Medicine of Universidad Francisco Marroquín of Guatemala (1991).
Recognition as Specialist in General Surgery and registered in the book of Specialists by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Guatemala (1992).
Recognition for the continuous work of Medical Education in Laparoscopic Surgery in Latin America by the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, Guatemala (2008).
Honorary Chair by the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons, in Boston, USA (2009).
Recognition for his collaboration with the Department of Surgery of Hospital General San Juan de Dios of Guatemala (2010).
Recognition for his notable and outstanding participation in the XXII International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery by the Mexican Association of Endoscopic Surgery, in Sinaloa, Mexico (2013).
Recognition for his inputs and contribution to the development of the Endoscopic Surgery in Mexico in the XXII International Congress of Endoscopic Surgery, in Veracruz, Mexico (2014).

The surgeon has in his hands, and through his instruments, in general our organs like appendix, pancreas, liver, vesicle, uterus, etc, and his objective is not only to heal us or save our lives, but to give us a better life quality.

We all submit ourselves to a surgical procedure knowing and hoping that the result be positive. None of us like to feel pain, but is normal to feel pain and aches after a procedure.

What would you think if I told you that medicine has advanced a lot in the last years, and that now we can opt for a type of surgery (in the cases that apply), that is less invasive, and the recovery time and pain is even a 50% less than other type of procedures?

The procedure is known as “Mini Laparoscopic Surgery”, which is a procedure that minimizes the post surgery pain and the complications, accelerating in this way the patient’s recovery.

Mini Laparoscopic Surgery uses work
instruments between 2.0 and 3.5 milimeters.

This means that the incisions in the skin do not need to be stitched anymore, and therefore there are no scars, as the conventional surgery does. In the year 2009, Doctor Roberto Gallardo Díaz brings to Guatemala the Mini Laparoscopic Surgery, and founds the Group of Mini Invasive Surgery of Guatemala. Becoming, in this way, the pioneer of Mini Surgery in our country. Thanks to the Laparoscopic Mini Surgery, and to the experience of Doctor Gallardo Díaz, the Group of Mini Surgery of Guatemala can give you a better quality of life.