Our Mission

Provide you with the best medical care available, in a personalized manner, of high quality and totally updated – state of the art - the same level of care provided by the best surgical centers in the world.

Who we are?

Dr. Moisés Chitrit is a General Surgeon renowned initially for being the first physician in the Republic of Panama to practice Trauma Surgery (Emergency) after advanced training in Colombia (University Hospital of el Valle, Cali) and in the United States (Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, Maryland y en el Detroit Receiving Hospital, Detroit, Michigan) in his sub-specialty. Upon his arrival to Panama he
embraced the treatment of seriously ill patients (life threatened) for a long time with outstanding results. Having excelled in the management of these types of problems he is part of the selected group of surgeons that maintain a solid, prestigious and abundant practice.

Aware that in Laparoscopic Surgery (minimally invasive) laid the future of Gastrointestinal General Surgery, Dr. Chitrit developed this art in order to offer his selected group of patients a wide spectrum of choices and to provide the same level of care as in the great worldwide surgical centers. Dr. Chitrit has performed laparoscopic procedures of great complexity during the last years, such as resection of gastric tumors of (stomach), colon tumors (large bowel), small bowel, anti gastroesophageal reflux surgery, laparoscopic biliary surgery, laparoscopic hernia repairs and other procedures. In 2006, Dr. Chitrit performed in Panama the first total resection of stomach in a gastric cancer patient with a yeyungullet reconstruction. Since then, Dr. Chitrit has succesfully performed several benign and malignant stomach tumor surgery. Recently, Dr. Chitrit has been accepted as Member of the International Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) and he is also a member of a long list of scientific societies at national and international level.

At this time he is the Director of the Centro Quirúrgico para el Control de Peso (Weight Control Surgical Center) devoted to the total management of the obese patient. Initially, Dr. Chitrit completed postgraduate training in Obesity Surgery, specifically in the application of Laparoscopic Gastric Banding, being among the privileged alumni of Dr. Rafael Alvarez Cordero, one of the fathers of obesity surgery in Mexico and founder or the Obesity Society of Mexico. After that, he trained in Bypass Gastric Surgery and he is capable of offering multiple surgical procedures to patients afflicted with severe obesity. In 2005 Dr. Chitrit performed the first laparoscopic gastric sleeve in Panama. During the last years, he has accumulated several hundreds of patients with excelent results becoming the bariatric surgeon most experienced in this procedure in Panama.

Recently, he was accepted as a selected member of the world renown Strathmore's Who's Who and represents an award to the profesionalism and dedication that Dr. Chitrit has demonstrated in his career as a surgeon.

Insurance Information

The Center participates with the majority of the well known insurance health plans available in our community. Please contact us to obtain more information on your health plan.