Affiliated Institutions
Baylor Clinic
Baylor Clinic is Baylor College of Medicine's state-of-the-art ambulatory medicine center. The GI clinic operating in this collaborative environment is open Monday through Friday. To obtain further information, please consult the Baylor Clinic GI web page.
St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
St Luke's Episcopal Hospital is a 900-bed private hospital, renowned for its excellence in diagnosis and treatment of gastroenterological disease. The hospital is staffed by both BCM and private physicians, and serves a local, national, and international referral population.
Ben Taub General Hospital
Ben Taub General Hospital, a 600-bed county hospital is the major general medical and surgical hospital serving the disadvantaged of Houston and surrounding Harris County. The gastrointestinal clinical service provides in-patient and out-patient consultation to the entire hospital population including clinical, diagnostic and endoscopic procedures. Approximately 75 in-patient consultations are seen every month and approximately 45 out-patients are seen every week. Approximately 150 diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures are performed each month on in-patients and out-patients.
Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center
The Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center is a 1,000-bed facility with state-of-the-art equipment. The gastroenterology section offers world renowned clinical service. The consultative team, made up of students, residents, fellows and the attending gastroenterologist, act as consultants to the housestaff for a wide variety of acute and chronic liver and gastrointestinal diseases. Many clinical studies in this patient population are being actively pursued.