Meet Our Team

Baptist Hospital in Beaumont Texas Delivering Quality Care

At Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas, we are performing Sacred Work every day. By helping overweight patients practice healthy habits that help them feel better, our bariatric weight loss program in Beaumont is making progress in the battle against heart disease, sleep apnea, and chronic pain. Meet our medical team below.

Alex Ordonez – MD, FACS, FASMBS

^{Medical Director of Bariatric Surgery at Baptist Hospitals}

Leads Southeast Texas as a specialty trained surgeon in Bariatric Surgery.

Credentials

• Board Certified, American Board of Surgery
• Fellowship Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Cleveland Clinic – Weston, Florida
• Verified Surgeon, Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation Quality & Improvement Program
• Fellow, American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
• Fellow, American College of Surgeons
• Certificate of Surgery, American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
• General Surgery Residency, Saint Joseph Mercy Health System Ann Arbor, Michigan
• Doctor of Medicine, Pontifical Catholic University- School of Medicine, Quito, Ecuador