Stop Obesity Bariatric Surgery publishes a profile of Dr. Ismael Cabrera García in Tijuana. The biography lists medical education in Puebla, general and digestive-surgery training in Monterrey, and advanced laparoscopic training in Tijuana. The practice describes gastric sleeve, gastric bypass, and revision surgery.
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Dr. Ismael Cabrera Garcia is an internationally trained and recognized leading expert in the field of laparoscopic bariatric & metabolic surgery in Tijuana, Mexico. Dr. Ismael Cabrera Garcia has performed to date over 4,000 bariatric procedures and offers patients weight loss surgical solutions in the form of Gastric Bypass, Gastric Sleeve and Gastric Banding placement surgeries in his practice in Tijuana, Mexico at the Mexico Bariatric Center. Dr. Ismael Cabrera Garcia received his general medical degree and then completed further specialized training with Dr. Juan Corvala in Hospital Angeles Tijuana and then finished a one-year certification, from Dr. Kelvin Higa, at Fresno Surgical Hospital. In 2012 Dr. Ismael Cabrera Garcia began working with the Mexico Bariatric Center, one of the busiest and top bariatric surgical centers in Tijuana, Mexico. In addition to Dr. Ismael Cabrera’s impressive passion for his field, Dr. Cabrera was honored to receive specialized board certification in Bariatric and Metabolic surgery by the Mexican College of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgeons (CMCOEM). Board certification is only granted to those doctors or surgeons that demonstrate excessive excellence and success in their chosen field, and Dr. Ismael Cabrera Garcia shares that honor with only four other bariatric surgeons in Tijuana, Mexico. Dr. Ismael Cabrera Garcia is highly skilled in performing Gastric weight loss management procedures but also has unique experience in executing more complicated applications that have included Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy (Gastric Sleeve), Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass, Gastric Mini-Bypass, and corrective Revisional surgeries. The positive solutions that the Mexico Bariatric Center and Dr. Ismael Cabrera Garcia can provide patients with are recorded in the many testimonials of success the center accumulates. Dr. Ismael Cabrera Garcia performs his life-saving surgeries in the well-appointed hospitals of Tecate, Tijuana, and Puebla, Mexico and has to date an astounding almost 0 percent complication rate, thus affording him the reputation as one of Tijuana’s best and most sought-after bariatric surgeons in practice today.
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Antonio Caso 2055, Zona Urbana Rio Tijuana, Tijuana, B.C. 22010, MexicoPublished contact source ↗ · Checked 2026-10-30
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Dr. Ismael Cabrera Garcia is an internationally trained and recognized leading expert in the field of laparoscopic bariatric & metabolic surgery in Tijuana, Mexico. Dr. Ismael Cabrera Garcia has performed to date over 4,000 bariatric procedures and offers patients weight loss surgical solutions in the form of Gastric Bypass, Gastric Sleeve and Gastric Banding placement surgeries in his practice in Tijuana, Mexico at the Mexico Bariatric Center. Dr. Ismael Cabrera Garcia received his general medical degree and then completed further specialized training with Dr. Juan Corvala in Hospital Angeles Tijuana and then finished a one-year certification, from Dr. Kelvin Higa, at Fresno Surgical Hospital. In 2012 Dr. Ismael Cabrera Garcia began working with the Mexico Bariatric Center, one of the busiest and top bariatric surgical centers in Tijuana, Mexico. In addition to Dr. Ismael Cabrera’s impressive passion for his field, Dr. Cabrera was honored to receive specialized board certification in Bariatric and Metabolic surgery by the Mexican College of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgeons (CMCOEM). Board certification is only granted to those doctors or surgeons that demonstrate excessive excellence and success in their chosen field, and Dr. Ismael Cabrera Garcia shares that honor with only four other bariatric surgeons in Tijuana, Mexico. Dr. Ismael Cabrera Garcia is highly skilled in performing Gastric weight loss management procedures but also has unique experience in executing more complicated applications that have included Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy (Gastric Sleeve), Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass, Gastric Mini-Bypass, and corrective Revisional surgeries. The positive solutions that the Mexico Bariatric Center and Dr. Ismael Cabrera Garcia can provide patients with are recorded in the many testimonials of success the center accumulates. Dr. Ismael Cabrera Garcia performs his life-saving surgeries in the well-appointed hospitals of Tecate, Tijuana, and Puebla, Mexico and has to date an astounding almost 0 percent complication rate, thus affording him the reputation as one of Tijuana’s best and most sought-after bariatric surgeons in practice today.
