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About Us

Our People: Physicians: GI / Hepatology

	Name:	Mark H. DeLegge , MD, FACG, CNSP, AGAF, FASGE
	Title(s):	Director, Digestive Disease Center ; Director, Section of Nutrition ; Professor of Medicine
	MD Degree:	University of Maryland (1985)
	Interests:	nutrition, enteral access and feeding, parenteral nutrition, malabsorption, GERD & treatment, and GI malignancies
	Phone:	(843) 876-7226
	E-mail:	deleggem@musc.edu

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	Name:	K. Mark Payne , MD
	Title(s):	Director, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology ; Chief, GI Medicine and Endoscopy ; Associate Professor of Medicine
	MD Degree:	University of Kansas (1982)
	Interests:	endoscopy and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography
	Phone:	(843) 876-4260
	E-mail:	paynemk@musc.edu

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	Name:	Fred Brown , MD
	Title(s):	Associate Clinical Professor
	MD Degree:	University of Kansas (1971)
	Board Certs.:	Internal Medicine (1974) ; Gastroenterology (1977)
	Interests:	GI motility and endoscopy
	Phone:	(843) 792-6999
	E-mail:	brownfc@musc.edu

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	Name:	Donald Castell , MD
	Title(s):	Director, Esophageal Disorders Program ; Professor of Medicine
	MD Degree:	George Washington University, DC (1960)
	Interests:	esophageal diseases
	Phone:	(843) 876-4265
	E-mail:	castell@musc.edu

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	Name:	Lawrence Comerford , MD, MS
	Title(s):	Assistant Professor of Medicine
	MD Degree:	Medical University of South Carolina (1997)
	Board Certs.:	Internal Medicine (2000) ; Gastroenterology (2004)
	Interests:	Inflammatory Bowel Disease, general G.I. and Endoscopy, Medical education
	Phone:	(843) 876-4262
	E-mail:	comerfol@musc.edu

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	Name:	Peter B. Cotton , MD, FRCP, FRCS
	Title(s):	Professor of Medicine
	MD Degree:	University of Cambridge, England (1963)
	Interests:	multidisciplinary care of patients with digestive problems, gastrointestinal endoscopy-innovation, evaluation and teaching
	Phone:	(843) 876-7226
	E-mail:	cottonp@musc.edu	View curriculum vitae

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	Name:	Todd Dantzler , MD
	Title(s):	Assistant Professor of Medicine
	MD Degree:	Medical University of South Carolina (1997)
	Interests:	capsule endoscopy, therapeutic endoscopy
	Phone:	(843) 876-4261
	E-mail:	dantzlet@musc.edu

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	Name:	Robert H. Hawes , MD
	Title(s):	Professor of Medicine ; Peter Cotton Endowed Chair for Endoscopic Innovation ; Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering, Clemson Univ.
	MD Degree:	Indiana University School of Medicine (1980)
	Board Certs.:	Internal Medicine (1985) ; Gastroenterology (1987)
	Interests:	pancreatobiliary disorders, therapeutic ERCP, endoscopic ultrasound, therapeutic endoscopy (including treatment of GI bleeding), laser therapy, stent placement and experimental endoscopy, NOTES
	Phone:	(843) 876-4282
	E-mail:	hawesr@musc.edu	View curriculum vitae

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	Name:	Brenda J. Hoffman , MD, FACP, FACG
	Title(s):	Professor of Medicine ; Chief, Endosonography ; Leader, GI Cancer Program
	MD Degree:	University of Kentucky College of Medicine (1983)
	Board Certs.:	Internal Medicine (1986) ; Gastroenterology (1989)
	Interests:	endoscopic ultrasound, therapeutic endoscopy, wireless capsule endoscopy
	Phone:	(843) 876-4265
	E-mail:	hoffmanb@musc.edu

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	Name:	David Koch , MD
	Title(s):	Assistant Professor of Medicine
	MD Degree:	Louisiana State University (2001)
	Phone:	(843) 876-4267
	E-mail:	kochd@musc.edu

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	Name:	Christopher Lawrence , MD
	Title(s):	Assistant Professor of Medicine
	MD Degree:	University of Mississippi (1997)
	Board Certs.:	Internal Medicine (2000) ; Gastroenterology (2005)
	Interests:	endoscopy, discorders of the pancreas & biliary system, therapeutic endoscopy, endoscopic palliation of GI cancers, inflammatory bowel disease
	Phone:	(843) 876-4269
	E-mail:	lawrench@musc.edu	View curriculum vitae

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	Name:	Adrian Reuben , MBBS, FRCP
	Title(s):	Director, Liver Studies ; Co-Director, Transplant Center ; Professor of Medicine
	MD Degree:	University of London (1969)
	Interests:	clinical hepatology & transplantation, and hepatic transport mechanisms
	Phone:	(843) 876-4267
	E-mail:	reubena@musc.edu

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	Name:	Joseph Romagnuolo , MD, FRCPC, FASGE, MScEpid
	Title(s):	Director of Clinical Research, Gastroenterology and Hepatology ; Associate Professor of Medicine
	MD Degree:	University of Toronto (1994)
	Board Certs.:	Gastroenterology (2000)
	Interests:	pancreatobiliary disorders, therapeutic ERCP, endoscopic ultrasound, therapeutic endoscopy (including treatment of GI bleeding), stent placement, epidemiology and economic analysis
	Phone:	(843) 876-4261
	E-mail:	romagnuo@musc.edu	View curriculum vitae

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	Name:	Adam J. Smolka , PhD
	Title(s):	Professor of Medicine ; Director, First Year Curriculum, College of Graduate Studies
	MD Degree:	University of Alabama (1982)
	Interests:	molecular structure-function relationships in the gastric proton pump; pathophysiology of Helicobacter pylori infection of the gastric mucosa, gastric and esophagael cancer
	Phone:	(843) 792-3527
	E-mail:	smolkaaj@musc.edu	View curriculum vitae

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	Name:	Marcelo F. Vela , MD, MSCR
	Title(s):	Associate Professor of Medicine
	MD Degree:	Francisco Marroquin University, Guatemala (1997)
	Board Certs.:	Internal Medicine (2000) ; Gastroenterology (2004)
	Interests:	gastroesophageal reflux, esophageal motility disorders, swallowing disorders, endoscopy
	Phone:	(843) 876-4269
	E-mail:	velaaqui@musc.edu	View curriculum vitae

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	Name:	Stacie Vela , MD
	Title(s):	Assistant Professor of Medicine
	MD Degree:	Ohio State University (2002)
	Board Certs.:	Internal Medicine (2005) ; Gastroenterology board eligible ()
	Interests:	endoscopic ultrasound, therapeutic endoscopy, endoscopic palliation of GI cancers, medical education
	Phone:	(843) 876-3147
	E-mail:	vela@musc.edu

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	Name:	Ira R. Willner , MD
	Title(s):	Medical Director, Liver Transplantation ; Director, GI & Hepatology Fellowship Program ; Associate Professor of Medicine
	MD Degree:	State University of New York Health Science Center (1990)
	Board Certs.:	Internal Medicine (1993) ; Gastroenterology (1995)
	Interests:	liver disease, treatment of portal hypertension and viral hepatis
	Phone:	(843) 876-4271
	E-mail:	willneri@musc.edu

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