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PHYSICIANS AT A GLANCE
The physicians of Gastrointestinal
Associates, Inc. are active members of many of the medical societies and the professional
G.I. Associations. After college and four years of medical school, each of the doctors
has had at least five additional years of training. Our physicians continue to update
their medical knowledge as well as having teaching responsibilities at the two hospitals.
Patients need to remain
under the care of a primary physician since the physicians of Gastrointestinal Associates
limit their care to diseases of the digestive system in adults. Patients under the
age of 16 need to seek the attention of a pediatric gastroenterologist.
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Jeffrey M. Berman
attended medical school at The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. After his internship and residency at The New York Hospital/Cornell University Medical Center, he completed a fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Dr. Berman is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology. Although he treats all G.I. diseases, Dr. Berman has a special interest in liver disease and advanced endoscopic techniques - including biliary endoscopy. Dr. Berman joined Gastrointestinal Associates, Inc. in 1999.
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Myhanh Bosse went
to medical school at Rutgers University. Her internship was at Graduate Hospital,
and her residency was at Pennsylvania Hospital. Dr. Bosse did a fellowship in gastroenterology
at The Medical College of Pennsylvania and a fellowship in Nutrition and Metabolism
at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. Dr. Bosse is board certified in
internal medicine and gastroenterology. Dr. Bosse began private practice in the
Abington area in 1993.
Dr. Bosse treats all gastrointestinal diseases but has a special interest in reflux
disease (including acid monitoring and esophageal manometry studies), in gastrointestinal
problems in geriatric patients, women's health and in nutrition. She is also fluent
in Vietnamese and in French and is an award winning artist in Bucks, Montgomery
and Hunterdon counties.
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Joseph M. Bruno is a graduate of Jefferson Medical
College. He served in the U.S. Air Force and completed his residency at Wright-Patterson
Medical Center, OH. He served as Chief of Internal Medicine at Dover Air Force Base
and was honored with the Meritorious Service Metal. He completed his subspecialty
training in Gastroenterology and Hepatology from Drexel University at Hahnemann
University Hospital. He is currently Board Certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology.
He has special interest in pancreatic and biliary diseases but treats all gastrointestinal
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Martin Chatzinoff
went to medical school at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
His residency and fellowship were done at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Chatzinoff
is board certified in internal medicine as well as gastroenterology. Dr. Chatzinoff
is currently the Medical Director of the GI Procedure Unit at Abington Memorial
Hospital and sits on the Executive Committee of Gastrointestinal Associates, Inc.
Dr. Chatzinoff began practice in the Abington area in 1987.
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Pradip Cherian joined
Gastrointestinal Associates in 2006 when merging our practices. He began his training
in medicine at the Christian Medical College and Hospital in India. He completed
his residency in Rotherham General Hospital and Northern General Hospital in the
U.K. and then completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at The Graduate Hospital
in Philadelphia. He is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology
and he treats all gastrointestinal disease.
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Marta A. Dabezies
attended The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Her internship and junior
residency were done at Baltimore City Hospital and her senior residency at Thomas
Jefferson University Hospital. Dr. Dabezies did her fellowship at the Hospital of
the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Dabezies is board certified
in internal medicine and gastroenterology. Dr. Dabezies was the Director of Gastrointestinal
Endoscopy at Temple University Hospital until 1998 when she joined Gastrointestinal
Associates, Inc. Dr. Dabezies has been listed as a "Top Doc" in Philadelphia Magazine
three different times. She is currently the President of Endoscopic Associates,
Inc.
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Gregg S. Gagliardi attended UMDNJ - Robert Wood
Johnson Medical School in New Jersey. His residency was done through Brown Medical
School at Rhode Island Hospital. He completed his training in gastroenterology by
completing a fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Dr. Gagliardi has
interest in reflux and other esophageal disorders but treats all gastrointestinal
diseases.
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Eric B. Goosenberg, MD is a board certified gastroenterologist
and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Temple University School of Medicine
who returns to private practice after spending the last decade as Director of Clinical
Gastroenterology and Director of Endoscopy at the Fox Chase Cancer Center.
Dr. Goosenberg is a native Philadelphian who received
his medical degree from the Temple University School of Medicine, and completed
his internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship at the Graduate
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. His background is in general gastroenterology
and hepatology. During his years at The Fox Chase Cancer Center, Dr. Goosenberg
had extensive experience with patients who had cancer or were at increased risk
of cancer.
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Harvey Guttmann went
to medical school at Cornell University. He did his internship and residency at
The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and his fellowship at Yale-New Haven
Hospital. Dr. Guttmann is board certified in internal medicine as well as gastroenterology.
Dr. Guttmann is currently the President of Gastrointestinal Associates, Inc. and
Chief of Gastroenterology at Abington Memorial Hospital. He is also the newly elected
president of the Delaware Valley Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. |
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Dr. Guttmann joined Gastrointestinal
Associates, Inc. in 1984. He is very active in the Internal Medicine Teaching Program
at Abington Memorial Hospital and has taught pathophysiology at Temple Medical School.
He is the father of two teenage children, and his wife, Marlane, is a staff radiologist
at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. |
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Elizabeth Stack Huebner
attended medical school at Loyola University Chicago where she graduated with honors.
She went to Vanderbilt University Medical Center for her residency and then completed
her training in gastroenterology at the University of Washington School of Medicine
in Seattle. She has a special interest in inflammatory bowel disease but treats
all gastrointestinal diseases. |
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Stephen E. Kaufman
went to medical school at the University of Minnesota. His internship and residency
were at UCLA and his fellowship in gastroenterology was at the Medical Center of
Vermont. Dr. Kaufman is board certified in internal medicine as well as gastroenterology.
Dr. Kaufman is the Chief of Gastroenterology at Holy Redeemer Hospital. Dr. Kaufman
joined Gastrointestinal Associates, Inc. in 1977. He is a Fellow of the American
College of Physicians (FACP) and Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology
(FACG).
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Steven C. Leskowitz
attended St. George's University School of Medicine. His internship and residency
were done at St. Michael's Medical Center, Newark, NJ and his fellowship was at
Presbyterian-University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Leskowitz
is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology. Dr. Leskowitz currently
sits on the Gastrointestinal Associates, Inc. Executive Committee and is the former
President of Endoscopic Associates, Inc. He joined Gastrointestinal Associates,
Inc. in 1997 after leaving another private practice. He has a special interest in
endoscopic procedures, including ERCP and small bowel capsule endoscopy. |
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Stuart M. Lubinski
attended medical school at The University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He
did his internship, residency and fellowship at Johns Hopkins University Hospital.
Dr. Lubinski is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology. Dr. Lubinski
has a special interest in inflammatory bowel disease although he treats all G.I.
diseases. Dr. Lubinski joined Gastrointestinal Associates, Inc. in 1999. |
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Anne L. Saris went
to medical school at Hahnemann University. She did her internship, residency, and
fellowship at Hahnemann as well. Dr. Saris is board certified in internal medicine
as well as gastroenterology. Dr. Saris began her private practice in this area in
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Ellen Shaw went to
medical school at Hahnemann Medical College. Her internship and residency were done
at Hahnemann Medical College. She did a fellowship in Gastroenterology and one in
liver disease at Jefferson Medical College. Dr. Shaw is board certified in internal
medicine as well as gastroenterology. Dr. Shaw is currently limiting her new patient
practice to patients with liver disease. Dr. Shaw joined Gastrointestinal Associates,
Inc. in 1990, coming to Abington area after having been the Chief of Gastroenterology
at the V.A. Medical Center in Wilmington, Delaware for five years.
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Robert B. Stein attended Temple University School of Medicine. He did his internship and residency at Temple University Hospital. His fellowship was done at the University of Chicago Hospitals. Dr. Stein was the Associate Director of Clinical Inflammatory Bowel Disease Research at the University of Pennsylvania Health System before joining Gastrointestinal Associates, Inc. in 2000. He is board certified in internal medicine and gastroentology. He treats all G.I. diseases but has a special interest in inflammatory bowel disease. Recently, he was honored by the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley Chapter of the CCFA by being voted the 2008 Physician of the Year! Please see our “Associate News” page (http://gastropa.com/news.htm) for more about this exciting achievement. |
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Jonathan M. Sternlieb
went to college at George Washington University and medical school at the University
of Pennsylvania. His internship, residency, and chief residency were done at Pennsylvania
Hospital and his fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Sternlieb is board certified
in internal medicine and gastroenterology. Dr. Sternlieb has a special interest
in reflux disease, and runs the esophageal motility lab at Abington Memorial Hospital.
Dr. Sternlieb began his private practice in the Abington area in 1990 and sits on
several committees, including: Abington Memorial Hospital (Department of Medicine
Performance Improvement, Physician's advisory group for information technology,
and a former member of the executive committee). Since 2002, he has been the Physician
Informaticist for Holy Redeemer Hospital. This position was created to provide a
liaison between the medical staff and the information services department as new
computer based patient care initiatives are implemented, such as computerized physician
order entry.
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Cesar A. de la Torre attended medical school at
the New York University School of Medicine in New York City. He trained in Internal
Medicine at Temple University Hospital where he remained for his fellowship in Gastroenterology
and Hepatology. He is board certified in both internal medicine and gastroenterology.
Dr. de la Torre treats all gastrointestinal diseases, but has a particular interest
in liver diseases, especially viral hepatitis, liver cancer, and evaluation of patients
for liver transplantation. In addition, Dr. de la Torre is fluent and literate in
Spanish. Dr. de la Torre joined Gastrointestinal Associates, Inc. on July 15, 2002. |
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William H. Mahood
On April 22, 2007
the Philadelphia Medical Community lost one of its pillars, Bill Mahood, to acute
leukemia. In his over four decades of service to Philadelphia and it suburbs, Bill
distinguished himself in so many ways. He was instrumental in developing a GI service
at Abington Memorial Hospital, and was the first gastroenterologist available for
consultative service at Holy Redeemer Hospital. He served as Chief of GI and Chief
of the GIPU at Abington Memorial Hospital for over two decades. His reputation as
a leader in gastroenterology allowed the division to always attract high caliber,
university trained physicians and evolve, with his guidance, into the quality organization
that it is today. By accomplishing this, Dr. Mahood was a true medical pioneer in
bringing clinical gastroenterology, as we know it today, from the academic setting
to the community at large. He sought to protect and to enhance our unified mission
to provide the best possible care to our patients. He was our tireless advocate
in that regard. He will always be remembered. |
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