- Colorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
- Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes
- Pancreatic and Hepatic Oncology Research
- Gastric Cancer Management and Outcomes
- Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
- Esophageal and GI Pathology
- Pancreatitis Pathology and Treatment
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Eosinophilic Esophagitis
- Microscopic Colitis
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Gastrointestinal disorders and treatments
- Eosinophilic Disorders and Syndromes
- Gallbladder and Bile Duct Disorders
- Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders
- Body Contouring and Surgery
- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
- Diabetes Treatment and Management
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
- Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment
- Pharmacology and Obesity Treatment
- Liver Disease and Transplantation
- Ultrasound Imaging and Elastography
- Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
- Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
Orlando Health
2025
University of Central Florida
2025
Florida College
2025
The Ohio State University
2025
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
2024-2025
University of North Carolina Health Care
2024
Sterling Hospitals
2024
University Hospitals of Cleveland
2020-2024
Brigham and Women's Hospital
2021-2024
Case Western Reserve University
1997-2023
Abstract Background The prevalence of obesity and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has increased in the last decade. There is a paucity data on recent trend utilization anti-obesity pharmacotherapy IBD. We aimed to use population-level database analyze their trends. Methods A retrospective analysis from 2010 2019 was performed among individuals ≥18 years age using commercial database, IBM Explorys. trends obesity, diabetes mellitus type 2 (DM2), essential hypertension, dyslipidemia and/or...
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) significantly increases hospitalizations and death. US Food Drug Administration (FDA)-approved medications for AUD are underutilized. Gabapentinoids not FDA-approved but frequently prescribed by physicians. To examine the association of acamprosate gabapentinoids on healthcare utilization total mortality in patients with AUD. Two propensity score (PS)-matched retrospective cohort studies. Veterans diagnosed (years 2003-2021) initiating or an AUD-related encounter...
Juvenile polyps (JPs) are the most common gastrointestinal diagnosed in children. There is paucity of evidence differentiating polyp burden groups and presence significance neoplastic changes.A retrospective chart review patients, ages birth through 18 years with nonsyndromic JPs was performed from 2003 to 2017. Abstracted data included basic demographics, age, clinical presentation, colonoscopy findings, pathology report. Slides neoplasia were reviewed by a pathologist.A total 213 subjects...
On Tuesday, March 10, 2020, an institutional e-mail sent from our hospital president confirmed the first 3 cases of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in healthcare system. Twenty-four hours later, we learned that one co-fellows had been exposed and was forced into self-quarantine. Suddenly, what seemed to be a distant problem hit close home. As sat around "fellows' room" (socially distanced as much possible luxurious expanse is common fellows' quarters), uncertainty about future...