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Our People: Physicians: GI / Hepatology



David B. Adams
Name: David B. Adams, MD
Title(s): Head, Section of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery; Co-Director, Digestive Disease Service Line; Professor of Surgery
Degree: Medical College of Virginia (1977)
Interests: surgical management of chronic pancreatitis, laparoscopic GI surgery, general GI surgery 
Phone: (843) 792-9393
E-mail: adamsdav@musc.edu
K. Mark Payne
Name: K. Mark Payne, MD
Title(s): Director, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Chief, G.I. Medicine and Endoscopy; Co-Director, Digestive Disease Service Line; Professor of Medicine
Degree: University of Kansas (1982)
Interests: endoscopy and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography 
Phone: (843) 876-4260
E-mail: paynemk@musc.edu
Andrew Brock
Name: Andrew Brock, MD
Title(s): Assistant Professor of Medicine
Degree: University of South Carolina (2003)
Interests: deep enteroscopy, capsule endoscopy and obscure gastrointestinal bleeding 
Phone: (843) 555-5555
E-mail: brockas@musc.edu
Fred Brown
Name: Fred Brown, MD
Title(s): Associate Clinical Professor
Degree: University of Kansas (1971)
Interests: GI motility and endoscopy 
Phone: (843) 792-6999
E-mail: brownfc@musc.edu
Donald Castell
Name: Donald Castell, MD
Title(s): Director, Esophageal Disorders Program; Professor of Medicine
Degree: George Washington University, DC (1960)
Interests: esophageal diseases 
Phone: (843) 876-4265
E-mail: castell@musc.edu
Lawrence Comerford
Name: Lawrence Comerford, MD, MS
Title(s): Assistant Professor of Medicine
Degree: Medical University of South Carolina (1997)
Interests: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, general G.I. and Endoscopy, Medical education 
Phone: (843) 876-4262
E-mail: comerfol@musc.edu
Peter B. Cotton
Name: Peter B. Cotton, MD, FRCP, FRCS
Title(s): Professor of Medicine
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
Todd Dantzler
Name: Todd Dantzler, MD
Title(s): Assistant Professor of Medicine
Degree: Medical University of South Carolina (1997)
Interests: capsule endoscopy, therapeutic endoscopy 
Phone: (843) 876-4261
E-mail: dantzlet@musc.edu
Mark H. DeLegge
Name: Mark H. DeLegge, MD, FACG, CNSP, AGAF, FASGE
Title(s): Director, Section of Nutrition; Professor of Medicine
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
Brenda J. Hoffman
Name: Brenda J. Hoffman, MD, FACP, FACG
Title(s): Chief, Endosonography; Leader, G.I. Cancer Program; Professor of Medicine
Degree: University of Kentucky College of Medicine (1983)
Interests: endoscopic ultrasound, therapeutic endoscopy, wireless capsule endoscopy 
Phone: (843) 876-4265
E-mail: hoffmanb@musc.edu
David Koch
Name: David Koch, MD
Title(s): Assistant Professor of Medicine
Degree: Louisiana State University (2001)
Interests: n/a 
Phone: (843) 876-4267
E-mail: kochd@musc.edu
Christopher Lawrence
Name: Christopher Lawrence, MD
Title(s): Assistant Professor of Medicine
Degree: University of Mississippi (1997)
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
Adrian Reuben
Name: Adrian Reuben, MBBS, FRCP
Title(s): Director, Liver Studies; Co-Director, Transplant Center; Professor of Medicine
Degree: University of London (1969)
Interests: clinical hepatology & transplantation, and hepatic transport mechanisms 
Phone: (843) 876-4267
E-mail: reubena@musc.edu
Joseph Romagnuolo
Name: Joseph Romagnuolo, MD, FRCPC, FASGE, MScEpid
Title(s): Director of Clinical Research, Gastroenterology and Hepatology; Associate Professor of Medicine
Degree: University of Toronto (1994)
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
Adam J. Smolka
Name: Adam J. Smolka, PhD
Title(s): Director, First Year Curriculum, College of Graduate Studies; Professor of Medicine
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
Ira R. Willner
Name: Ira R. Willner, MD
Title(s): Medical Director, Liver Transplantation; Director, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellowship Program; Associate Professor of Medicine
Degree: State University of New York Health Science Center (1990)
Interests: liver disease, treatment of portal hypertension and viral hepatis 
Phone: (843) 876-4271
E-mail: willneri@musc.edu
Page last updated 09/22/2011 .