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Gastroenterology Fellowship


James H. Grendell, MD
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Program Director's Message
The three-year gastroenterology fellowship provides extensive experience in all aspects of gastroenterology, endoscopy, hepatology and nutrition. Our fellows have the opportunity to become expert in these areas through Winthrop's formalized centers of excellence with state-of-the-art equipment and through rotations in advanced hepatology and liver transplantation at the Columbia-Presbyterian campus of New York Presbyterian Hospital. Graduating fellows successfully establish themselves in academic or clinical careers of their choice.
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At-A-Glance
- Opportunity to attain competency in gastrointestinal motility, through the Gastrointestinal Diagnostic Motility Center
- Opportunity to become expert in enteral and parenteral nutrition in the inpatient and outpatient settings
- 100% success rate in GI residents becoming board certified in nutrition
- Extensive training in all aspects of liver disease
- Development of expertise in the management of Pancreatic and Biliary Disease
- Excellence in all areas of endoscopic training
- Exposure to the role of endoscopic ultrasound in GI
- Generous house staff benefits, including heavily subsidized housing and complimentary meals
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Curriculum
Education in standard GI procedures during the first year is followed during the second and third year with training in the newer modalities of investigational and therapeutic procedures such as endoscopic ultrasound, laser therapy, colonic and rectal motility studies, and 24-hour monitoring of esophageal pH and motility. Throughout the three-year program, fellows follow patients in the weekly outpatient GI and liver clinics, and gain knowledge in nutrition and total parenteral nutrition by participating in the nutrition support team and nutrition clinic. In their second and third years, GI fellows learn techniques of clinical basic research.
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Key Faculty
- James H. Grendell, MD, Chief - Division of Gastroenentorology, Hepatology & Nutrition; Fellowship Program Director; Professor of Medicine, SUNY at Stony Brook. Research interests: Mechanisms of injury and repair in experimental models of pancreatitis; diagnosis & treatment of pancreatitis & pancreatic cancer.
- Kavita Kongara, MD, Associate Chief - Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, & Nutrition, Assistant Professor of Medicine, SUNY at Stony Brook School of Medicine; Director of Gastrointestinal Diagnostic Motility Center and Director, Women's Center for Gastrointestinal Diseases. Research interests: GERD, Irritable Bowel Syndrome and other motility disorders of the GI system.
- Bonnie Pollack, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, SUNY at Stony Brook School of Medicine; Research interests: biliary and pancreatic endoscopy, endoscopic ultrasound and general endoscopy.
- David Friedel, MD, Acting Director - GI Endoscopy & Endoscopic Ultrasound; Clinical Associate Professor, SUNY at Stony Brook. Research Interests: biliary and pancreas endoscopy, endoscopic ultrasound and general endoscopy, colon cancer screening practices, Barrett's esophagus, and hospital nutrition.
For further information, contact:
James H. Grendell, MD
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
Winthrop-University Hospital
222 Station Plaza North, Suite 429
Mineola, NY 11501
Tel: (516) 663-4624
Fax: (516) 663-4617
E-mail: mkramps@winthrop.org
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