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Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Heersink School of Medicine

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Clinicians

  • Ahmed, Ali M., MD

    AhmedAssistant Professor
    Areas of Interest: Advanced Endoscopy, Therapeutic EUS, ERCP, Enteroscopy

  • Burski, Chad, MD

    Burski ChadAssociate Professor
    Director, GI Fellowship Program
    Areas of Interest: General GI and Medical Education

  • Callaway, James, MD

    J Callaway 1 white coatAssistant Professor
    Areas of Interest: Dysphagia, esophageal motility disorders, esophageal strictures, eosinophilic esophagitis, gastroesophageal reflux disease and its complications

  • Cartee, Amanda, MD

    Amanda Cartee 150Assistant Professor
    Areas of Interest: Post COVID gastrointestinal symptoms, celiac disease, non-celiac gluten sensitivity, and enteropathies, symptoms despite treatment with a gluten free diet and transition to adult care

  • Dasher, Charles, MD

    Dasher RS7690 charles dasher 2009 1Professor
    Areas of Interest: Clinical gastroenterology and endoscopy and improving efficiencies and outcomes in these areas

  • Dickinson, Douglas, MD

    DickinsonProfessor
    Areas of Interest:     Colon cancer screening, inflammatory bowel disease, esophageal strictures, Barretts esophagus 

  • Elson, Charles O., MD

    Elson GAS 0412Professor
    Areas of Interest:     Regulation of adaptive mucosal immune responses, particularly the mucosal immune  response to the microbiota, particularly the T cell and B cell response to microbiota flagellins in Crohn’s disease

  • Estes, Derek, M.D.

    AhmedAssistant Professor
    Areas of Interest:  Colon Cancer Screening, General GI, Medical Education

  • Fettig, David, MD

    Burski ChadAssistant Professor
    Areas of Interest: Diagnosing and treating diseases of the liver including alcoholic liver disease, liver cancer, viral hepatitis B and C, fatty liver disease and liver transplant workup  

  • Gray, Meagan, MD

    headshot3Assistant Professor
    Associate Director, GI Fellowship Program
    Areas of Interest:     Nutrition, fatty liver disease and transplant hepatology and health disparities

  • Hameed, Anam, MD

    AhmedAssistant Professor
    Areas of Interest: Functional GI Disorders, Gastrointestinal Motility and Nutrition

  • Ismail, Mohamed, MD, MSc

    Ismail MohamedAssistant Professor
    Areas of Interest: Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) with a research focus on understanding fibrosis and strictures development in Crohn's disease and the role of endotherapy in management

  • Kyanam, Kondal R., MD

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    Associate Professor
    Director, Basil I. Hirschowitz Center of Excellence
    Director, Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship Program
    Areas of Interest: General endoscopy and advanced endoscopy including diagnostic and therapeutic endosonography and endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreaticography, drainage of pseudocyst, necrosis, and abscess, and endoscopic removal of large polyps, early cancer, and therapy of Barrett's esophagus and cancer

  • McGuire, Brendan, MD

    McGuire Brendan MDProfessor
    Director, UAB Liver Center
    Areas of Interest:     Acute and chronic liver failure and management of patients with porphyria

  • Morgan, Doug, MD, MPH

    douglas morganDivision Director
    Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
    Endowed Professor in Gastroenterology and Hepatology
    Areas of Interest: Cancer Epidemiology & prevention in the Hispanic-Latino populations in Latin America and the U.S.

  • Mulki, Ramzi, MD

    Sanchez LunaAssistant Professor
    Areas of Interest: Bariatric and metabolic endoscopy, interventional gastrointestinal procedures, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), diagnosis and management of pancraticobiliary diseases, endoscopic mucosal resection, endoscopic innovation

  • Peter, Shajan, MD

    Sugandha RS7712 peter shajan sugandha 2009Associate Professor
    Director, TKC Endoscopy
    Director, Small Bowel and Mucosal Therapeutics Programs
    Areas of Interest:     Esophageal and small bowel disorders, cryotherapy ablations, deep enteroscopy, advanced endoscopic imaging, colorectal cancer screening, endoscopic mucosal resection, complex polypectomies, interventional pancreatico-billary endoscopy (EUS/ERCP), GI bleeding, enteral feeding and stenting techniques; endoscopic treatment outcomes of Barrett's esophagus, obscure GI bleeding, translational research

  • Russ, Kirk, MD

    Kirk RussAssistant Professor
    Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinic
    Areas of Interests: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis 

  • Sánchez-Luna, Sergio A., MD

    Sergio Sanchez-Luna, MDAssistant Professor
    Areas of Interest: Endoscopic Surgery as applied to Primary and Revisional Bariatric/Metabolic Endoscopy Therapies, Postsurgical complications, Interventional Pancreaticobiliary Endoscopy (EUS/ERCP), EUS-guided gallbladder and bile duct drainage, EUS-guided gastroenterostomy, Gastric Access for Temporary Endoscopy (GATE) Procedure, Endo-Hepatology, Endoscopic Therapy for gastroesophageal reflux disease (TIF, ARAT, ARMS), Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), Full-thickness resection (FTR), and Peroral endoscopic myotomy (Z-POEM, E-POEM, G-POEM)

  • Sarkis, Fayez, MD

    fayez sarkis 200x200Assistant Professor
    Director, TKC Outpatient Clinic
    Areas of Interest: General gastrointestinal conditions and diseases and screening and preventing endoluminal gastrointestinal cancers

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