Positions
- Professor
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Department of Medicine
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, US
Addresses
- Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center (Office)
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7200 Cambridge Street
Suite 10C
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-0950
Clinic Website
- Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center (Clinic)
-
7200 Cambridge Street
Suite 10C
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: (713) 798-0950
Clinic Website
Education
- Fellowship at University of Chicago
- 01/1980 - Chicago, IL, United States
- Gastroenterology
- Residency at Montefiore Medical Center-Weiler Hospital
- 01/1976 - Bronx, NY, United States
- Internal Medicine
- MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- 01/1973 - Bronx, NY, United States
- Internship at Montefiore Medical Center-Weiler Hospital
- 01/1974 - Bronx, United States
- Internal Medicine
Certifications
- Internal Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine
- Gastroenterology
- American Board of Internal Medicine
Honors & Awards
- Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College
- John Woodruff Simpson Fellow
- AGA Marion Research Scholarship Award
- Dean’s Teaching List for Excellence
- Physician of the Year
- Gulf Coast Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America
- American Society for Clinical Investigation
- Best Doctors in America, Central Region
- The University of Texas Medical School
- Dean’s Excellence Award
- Best Doctors in America
- 2003-present
- AGA Intestinal Disorder Research Mentor Award
- Texas Super Docs
- 2008-present
Professional Interests
- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis
- Chronic diarrhea
- Novel therapies for IBD
- Dietary influences on the GI Tract
- Ethnic and racial factors in IBD
- Regulation of colonic proliferation
- Colonoscopy
Memberships
- American College of Gastroenterology
- Governor of South Texas Region 2
- American Federation of Clinical Research
- American Gastroenterological Association
- American Physiological Society
- American Society for Clinical Investigation
- ELECTED
- Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America
- Gastrointestinal Research Group
- Harris County Medical Society
- Houston Gastroenterological Society
- Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine
- Texas Medical Association
- Texas Society for Gastroenterology and Endoscopy
- Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America
- American Gastroenterological Association
- American College of Gastroenterology
- Governor of South Texas Region 2
- LOTOS Club 2013
- Houston Gulf Coast Ileitis & Colitis Foundation
- Co-Chairman, Medical Advisory Co
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