Division Profile: Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Mark Mailliard, M.D.

Chief: Mark Mailliard, M.D.

Division Personnel:

  • Faculty: 20 (12 M.D.s and 8 Ph.D.s)
  • Trainees:  14 (11 clinical fellows, 3 post doctoral fellows)
  • Staff: 15

Research Highlights:

  • Research funding of more than $1.7 million in FY 2013-14

    • 5 Research Career Scientist Award (VA Merit funded)
    • 2 RO1 Awards (including 1 with carryover funding)
    • 1 R21 Award
    • 3 NRI Awards
    • 1 Tobacco Award
  • Ongoing clinical trial HCV Target Study
  • 20 peer reviewed publications in 2014

Awards

  • 3 Distinguished Scientist Award Recipients

    • Kusum Kharbanda, Ph.D. – 2013
    • Dee Harrison-Findik, Ph.D., D.V.M. – 2010
    • Carol Casey, Ph.D. – 200 
  • New Investigator Award

    • Benita McVicker, Ph.D. – 2013
    • Dee Harrison-Findik, Ph.D., D.V.M. – 2010 
  • Internal Medicine Basic Science Award

    • Natalia Osna, M.D., Ph.D. – 2014
    • Benita McVicker, Ph.D. – 2013
    • Dee Harrison-Findik, Ph.D., D.V.M. – 2009

Clinical Activity in FY 2013-14

  • 9,600 clinic visits
  • 7,300 inpatient encounters
  • 6,400 endoscopic procedures

Clinical Service at the VA FY 2013-14

  • 1,351 clinic visits
  • 2,613 endoscopic procedures

Clinical Division Highlights:

Ishfaq Bhat, M.D.

  • Ishfaq Bhat, M.D., assistant professor.  Dr. Bhat is trained in both hepatology and gastroenterology and will join our division as a faculty member on July 1.  He will focus on general GI in both endoscopy and clinic at the Village Pointe location.

Alex Hewlett, D.O.

  • Created the state’s first fecal transplantation program requiring intense partnership with infectious diseases, pathology and microbiology and gastroenterology colleagues. Developing protocols for the success of this new program.
  • Program director, gastroenterology fellowship program – 9 fellows, 3-year curriculum

Grant Hutchins, M.D.

  • Established program for special endoscopy, including ERCP and EUS at both TNMC and VA campus
  • Medical director of endoscopy

Mark Mailliard, M.D.

  • Principal investigator HCV –Target study, an international consortium of investigators with FDA-funded partnership of NIH and industry study
  • Division chief, Frederick F. Paustian Professor of Medicine

Tim McCashland, M.D.

  • Medical director, liver transplantation
  • Program director, hepatology fellowship program – 2 fellows, 1-year curriculum

Marco Olivera, M.D.

  • Assistant program director, hepatology fellowship program – 2 fellows, 1-year curriculum

Fedja Rochling, M.B.B.C.H.

  • Director of intestinal rehabilitation program, short bowel syndrome

Shailender Singh, M.B.B.S.

  • Medical director, pancreatobiliary disorders

Renee Young, M.D.

  • Inflammatory bowel disease