Arturo Torices Dardon, MD, FACS, is a board-certified general surgeon specializing in bariatric, minimally invasive, robotic, and general surgery. He currently practices in South Texas, where his clinical focus includes primary and revisional bariatric surgery, foregut surgery, advanced minimally invasive and robotic surgery, and general surgery.
Originally from Mexico City, Dr. Torices Dardon earned his Medical Surgeon degree from Universidad Anáhuac, where he also completed a Master’s degree in Management of Health Institutions. He subsequently completed six years of General Surgery residency at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens/Weill Cornell Medicine in New York.
Following residency, he completed a fellowship in Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery at Jefferson Abington Hospital in Pennsylvania. His fellowship provided comprehensive training in the multidisciplinary management of obesity and metabolic disease, including diagnostic evaluation, non-operative management, primary and revisional bariatric surgery, and postoperative care. His advanced surgical training included laparoscopic and robotic sleeve gastrectomy, Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch, revisional bariatric surgery, hiatal hernia repair, and other complex foregut procedures.
Dr. Torices Dardon’s current practice combines bariatric and metabolic surgery with advanced minimally invasive, robotic, foregut, and general surgery. His clinical interests include primary and revisional bariatric surgery, management of complications following bariatric procedures, gastroesophageal reflux disease and hiatal hernia, and complex abdominal surgery.