Ricardo Cortes Ocariz

Plastic surgeon at the ICA Institute of Advanced Surgery from 2024 to the present.

2023/11 to 2025/03 – Plastic surgeon in private practice at the El Hierro Medical Center, performing surgeries at the CLINICA TARA in Tacoronte and at the CLINICA ICA in La Orotava and Adeje, Tenerife.

2022/09 to 2023/08 – Plastic surgeon contracted at the Hospital Centro de Andalucía in Lucena (Córdoba).

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2022/07 to 2022/09 - Hired by the NGO Doctors Without Borders (OCP) of Paris (France) as a Plastic Surgeon for the care and training project for "Burn Patients" at the Shafira and Nasser Hospitals in Palestine - Gaza Strip. (60 days)

2022/01 to 2022/03 - Hired by the NGO Amici di Ampasilaba of Bologna (Italy) as a Multipurpose General Surgeon at the "Ospedale de Vezo" in Andavadoaka, Madagascar. (88 days)

2021 - Sabbatical year with professional activity limited to the months of 05-06 and 09-10 at CLINICA TARA in TACORONTE - TENERIFE (operating on 14 private patients)

1987/02 - 2020/12 - PRIVATE AESTHETIC SURGERY PRACTICE. Professional practice in private consultations and clinics of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, initially in BARCELONA (1987-1995), followed by LANZAROTE/LAS PALMAS/TENERIFE (1996-2019), and continuing in LANZAROTE/EL HIERRO (2020). Registered with the Official Colleges of Physicians of: BARCELONA No. 18639, LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA No. 353505078, and SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE.

2019/09-2020/11 - Hired by the CANARY ISLANDS HEALTH SERVICE (S.C.S) of the Government of the Canary Islands as MEDICAL DIRECTOR of the Insular Hospital Nuestra Señora de los Reyes,

(HINSR), IN VALVERDE - EL HIERRO - SPAIN

2012-2014 - Hired by S.C.S as "HOSPITAL EMERGENCY DOCTOR" at Insular Hospital Nuestra Señera de los Reyes (HINSR) in SPAIN - VALVERDE - EL HIERRO, performing 59 24-hour shifts of physical presence as the only door physician for the entire island. 2007/12 – 2014/05 - Hired by the S.C.S. as a specialist plastic surgery physician at the Insular University Hospital and Maternal and Child Complex (CHUIMI) in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.

2005/09 - 2015/09 - Hired by the NGO Lanzarote Help as chief surgeon and founder of the Ebome Hospital in Kribi, Cameroon (HEK).