Mentor of the Month Series: Laparoscopic Training in the United States

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Dr. Horacio J. Asbun is the Chief of Hepatobiliary and Pancreas Surgery at Miami Cancer Institute. He was born and raised in La Paz, Bolivia, and attended medical school at the University of Chile. He did his initial surgical training for two years in Spain followed by a surgical oncology postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California in San Diego. He subsequently completed a general surgical residency at Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, CA, and a gastrointestinal and hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgery fellowship at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA. Prior to his current appointment, he served as the Chief of Hepatobiliary Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville and Professor of Surgery at Mayo Medical School. …