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Department of Medicine -
Section of Digestive Diseases

   
Open Faculty Positions
The Digestive Disease Section provides diagnosis and treatment of patients with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, and pancreas.

Available diagnostic and therapeutic procedures:
  • diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy
  • esophageal manometry and ambulatory esophageal pH monitoring
  • laser applications for treatment of gastrointestinal malignancies
  • liver biopsy
  • small bowel biopsy
  • management of esophageal strictures and achalasia
  • endoscopic removal of polyps from stomach and colon
  • sclerotherapy of esophageal
  • varices - Banding of esophageal
  • vances
  • endoscopic control of
  • gastrointestinal bleeding
  • percutaneous endoscopic
  • gastrostomy - PEG/-J