The Division of Gastroenterology at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

Clinical Programs at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

The Penn GI faculty at PPMC provide comprehensive inpatient and outpatient gastroenterology plus hepatology consultation, including focused care of patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis) and uncomplicated liver disease. Our practitioners perform colonoscopies, upper GI endoscopies, endoscopic feeding tube placement, and advanced endoscopic procedures (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography/ERCP and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS).

Clinical Research at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

• PIONEER-CD (Nestle) nutritional trial in Crohn’s Disease patients who are not completely responding to anti TNF therapy
• HOLIDAY nutritional Ulcerative Colitis trial to open soon
• IBD Plexus and I3 observational cohort studies for patients with IBD
• IBD I3-GSK collaborative study
• BEAT-HIV collaborative

Conferences at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

• GI pathology conference the last Wednesday of each month
• IBD Team journal club and clinical conferences once or twice monthly in rotation with PCAM
• Periodic ad hoc GI radiology didactic sessions with the PPMC GI and Interventional Radiology Teams
• Daily consultative and endoscopic instruction of gastroenterology fellows, medical residents, and medical students in the outpatient and inpatient setting