Studies at the University of Ann Arbor, Michigan; University of Denver, Colorado; University of Columbia, Missouri; and University of Costa Rica, have provided Dr. Miguel Alfaro the knowledge to be a worldwide renown plastic surgeon.  In his role as a professor at the Medical School of the University of Costa Rica, the University of Toronto, and the University of Melbourne, Dr. Alfaro has been up to date with the latest medical procedures.

Dr. Miguel Alfaro is member of the prestigious Oncological Society, the Mastology Society, the International Plastic Surgery Society, the International College of Surgeons, the International Society for Burn Injuries, and the Ibero-Latinoamerican Society for Plastic Surgery.   In addition to having been president of the Costa Rican Plastic Surgery Society, he has been a member of the Scientific Bioethical Committee, the Costa Rican College of Surgeons and the Mal Practice Committee of the same college.   

Dr. Alfaro is former Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the National Hospital San Juan de Dios, in Costa Rica, which is a university teaching hospital with 400 adult beds.  He also was, during 20 years, Chief of the Plastic Surgery Service and Chief of the Burn Unit at the National Hospital San Juan de Dios.