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Micaela Esquivel is a board-certified, fellowship-trained bariatric minimally invasive surgeon and a Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. She specializes in foregut surgery and bariatric surgery, and is known for her work in robotic surgery and therapeutic surgical endoscopy. Dr. Esquivel developed the Bariatric Endoscopy Program at Stanford Health Care, offering innovative treatments for patients experiencing weight regain, including endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty and gastric bypass revisions. Her research interests focus on global surgical care access and specific outcomes in bariatric surgery, studying surgical access and care in California, Zambia, and Guatemala. Dr. Esquivel has made numerous presentations on surgical care access at prestigious conferences and has published extensively in prominent journals such as JAMA and The Lancet. She has received several honors, including the Samuel L. Kountz Humanitarian Award and the Resident Research Award of the Year at Stanford.
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