Affiliation: Federal University of Sao Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Dr. Fernando Herbella did his medical training at the Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, including his medical school to residence in general surgery and gastrointestinal surgery. In the same university he also obtained his MSc and PhD and is currently working as Associate Professor of Surgery. He also did 2 fellowships in esophageal surgery and physiology at the University of California San Francisco under Dr. Marco Patti and at the University of Rochester under Dr. Jeffrey Peters. His main interest is in the surgery and physiology of the foregut. He has published over 270 papers and 60 book chapters in the area, acts as invited lecturer and peer-reviewer for several journals in the field. He is highly experienced with achalasia cases due to the association with Chagas´ disease that is very common in Brazil.