Patient education
Sleeve, bypass, revision, metabolic disease, and recurring patient Q&A webinars.
Videos & Media
Three decades on camera, in print, and on the operating room broadcast.
Dr. Ortiz is a working medical media producer as well as a practicing surgeon. The library below collects his television appearances, print features, and the educational video work produced through QuoVadis Productions and IBC-TV.
Video library
Professional education
Surgeon-to-surgeon training, technique videos, and conference lectures.
Live surgical broadcasts
Narrated procedures broadcast for international training audiences.
IBC-TV / Bariatric Surgery Online TV
International bariatric education channel led by Dr. Ortiz.
360° / Virtual reality
Facebook Live 360° bariatric surgery streams and immersive surgical training.
Media interviews & podcasts
Long-form conversations on metabolic disease, the GLP-1 era, and the future of surgery.
Television & broadcast
- Oprah Winfrey Show
- The Doctors
- NBC Dateline — "Suddenly Thin"
- Good Morning America
- Nightline
- Discovery Health / Discovery Channel Latin America
- ABC News — "Is Balloon Pill a Weight-Loss Miracle Cure or Short-Term Fix?" (2014)
- ABC7 New York (WABC) — "New weight loss technique: swallowing a pill" (2014)
- Fox News — "Border Surgeon Becomes Public Face of New Weight-Loss Device Not Yet Available in U.S."
- CBS8 San Diego — "UC San Diego training surgeons in Tijuana" (2022)
- Telemundo 20 San Diego — Tijuana medical tourism (2023)
- Living Pulse (Spanish version host) · Medical Planet · Randy Alvarez Medical Show
Print & magazine
- San Diego Union-Tribune — "UCSD collaborates with weight-loss surgical center in Tijuana" (June 3, 2022)
- San Diego Union-Tribune — "Crossing to shed pounds" investigative feature (2008)
- Mexico News Daily — "Why America loves Tijuana healthcare" (2025)
- Harper's Bazaar — "Latest Weight Loss Treatments" (August 2014)
- TIME · Newsweek · Forbes — feature coverage
Coverage focused on cross-border bariatric care, the OCC–UCSD academic collaboration, and the early clinical use of the Obalon swallowable intragastric balloon.