Gastroenterology Fellowship

The Gastroenterology Fellowship Program trains its fellows become expert, caring gastroenterologists. The three-year, fully accredited fellowship program has nine fellows and six Board-certified faculty. The fellows are trained in all aspects of evaluation and therapy. The faculty and fellows are actively involved in multiple research clinical trials and regularly publish scholarly work in peer-reviewed journals and present at national and international meetings.

Faculty

- Sury Anand, MD
- Hayden Briggs, MD
- Thomas Izquierdo, MD
- Abraham Jelin, MD (Pediatrics)
- George Jhagroo, MD
- Mahesh Krishnaiah, MD
- Mojdeh Momeni, MD
- Madhavi Reddy, MD
- Scott Fink, MD (Hepatology)

Fellows

- Amir S Butt (3rd year)
- Srinivas Cheruvu (2nd year)
- Vishal Ghevariya (2nd year)
- Ghulam Mujtaba (2nd year)
- Nithan Narendra (2nd year)
- Puneet Basi (1st year)
- Chethana Kanaparthi (1st year)
- Siddharth Mathur (1st year)
- Mohammed Mazumder (1st year)

How to Apply

Please download and fill out the Universal Application Form. Also required with the application are three recommendation letters, an up-dated curriculum vitae, two passport photographs and copies of your published work. The program encourages candidates with research experience and prior nutrition or hepatology fellowships.

Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is the interview process for gastroenterology Fellowship Program?
Candidates will spend the day with current fellows on rounds and in endoscopy and will be interviewed by the GI admissions committee which includes the program director, associate program directors and the chief fellow.

2. What is new and special about the Gastroenterology Fellowship Program?
a) The core lectures have been expanded to include lectures by leading experts from across the country.

b) Research activity has resulted in multiple publications and abstracts. The fellows have ownership of their projects with full responsibility for planning and execution with supervision from faculty. For example, collaboration with the New York University Department of Pharmacology includes on-going mass spectrometry and MALDI analysis of tissue in colon cancer and IBD. The IBD project received a peer-reviewed grant from Proctor and Gamble in 2007.

c) A study has been designed by faculty and fellows to measure outcomes of the program training using the Standardized Procedure Assessment (SPA). This data-based assessment of procedural competence during training has been accepted as an abstract at the 2008 ACG.

d) A dedicated hepatologist has joined the faculty and is part of the continuity clinic experience. This is in addition to the time spent in transplant hepatology and other hepatology clinics that the fellows attend at participating hospitals.

e) Third year fellows are given the opportunity to take an elective rotation for one month. In 2007, the fellows chose the University of Chicago for IBD, Beth Israel Hospital in New York for advanced endoscopy and Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York for endoscopic ultrasound. One fellow was accepted at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles for a 4th year IBD fellowship and one fellow was accepted at the Pancreas and Biliary Center at St Vincent’s Hospital in New York for a 4th year advanced endoscopy fellowship.

Get more information about Gastroenterology at The Brooklyn Hospital Center.

Universal Application Form