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:
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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
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3 Distinguished Scientist Award Recipients
- Kusum Kharbanda, Ph.D. – 2013
- Dee Harrison-Findik, Ph.D., D.V.M. – 2010
- Carol Casey, Ph.D. – 200
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New Investigator Award
- Benita McVicker, Ph.D. – 2013
- Dee Harrison-Findik, Ph.D., D.V.M. – 2010
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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