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McWilliams, Michael
Wilmington Health
341-3300
Cleveland Clinic, 2005, 2007
Moeller, Michael
Hanover Medical Specialists
763-5182
Univ. of Rochester School of Medicine, 1988
Murphy, Mark
Wilmington Cardiology
815-3420
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 1999
Payne, Paul
Wilmington Health
341-3300
Duke University Medical Center, 1995
Roberts, Gregory
Wilmington Health
341-3300
Pennsylvania State University, 2007
Sawyer, David
Hanover Medical Specialists
763-5182
Thomas Jefferson Univ. Hospital, 1995
Sheerin, Jim
Wilmington Health
341-3300
University of Oregon Health Sciences
Center, 1978
Smith IV, William
Coastal Cardiology Associates
762-2433
Duke University Medical Center, 2002, 2003
Snyder, James
Hanover Medical Specialists
763-5182
University of Iowa Hospital, 1974
Warren, L. Patrick
Delaney Radiologist
762-3882
North Carolina Memorial Hospital, 1981
Weaver, David
Wilmington Cardiology
815-3420
University of North Carolina Hospitals,
1991
Wiegman, Peter
Hanover Medical Specialists
763-5182
University of Virginia, 1997
Winslow, Timothy
Coastal Cardiology Associates
762-2433
Letterman Army Medical Center, 1991
Yarnoz, Michael
Hanover Medical Specialists
763-5182
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical
Center & University of South Florida
College of Medicine, 2008, 2009
Carney, D. Spencer
Wilmington Gastroenterology
362-1011
University of Texas
Southwestern Medical Center,
2008
Gaylord, Kevin
Hanover Medical Specialists
763-5182
Albany Medical Center, 2005
Gramley, William
Hanover Medical Specialists
763-5182
Univ. of Virginia Health
Sciences Center, 1998
King, William
Wilmington Gastroenterology
362-1011
Boston University Medical
Center and Boston VA, 1993
Kittinger III, Joseph
Wilmington Gastroenterology
362-1011
UNC-Chapel Hill, 1985
Klein, Steven
Wilmington Gastroenterology
362-1011
Emory University, 2004
Mastrangelo, Michael
Hanover Medical Specialists
763-5182
Medical College of Virginia,
1983
Mertesdorf, James
Hanover Medical Specialists
763-5182
Virginia Commonwealth
University, 1984
Mlot, Matthew
Wilmington Health
341-3300
Henry Ford Hospital, 1983
Opper, Frederick
Hanover Medical Specialist
763-5182
UNC-Chapel Hill, 1991
Sauer, Mariam
Wilmington Gastroenterology
362-1011
Loyola University Medical
Center, 2008
Gastroenterology
Gastroenterology is the specialty of medicine which
studies the digestive system and its disorders.
Diseases affecting the stomach, intestines and entire
gastrointestinal tract are the focus of this specialty, including
liver, pancreatic and biliary diseases (gall bladder, bile ducts).
This hard-to-spell specialty is a combination of three
ancient Greek words: gaster (gen.: gastros) (stomach),
enteron (intestine), and logos (reason).
This is the branch of medicine that most people don’t really
want to talk about. “The things we go to the bathroom for, peo-ple
don’t like to talk about those functions,” says Dr. Clinton
Meyer, one of four founders of Wilmington Gastroenterology.
The key to combating colon cancer is early discovery says, Dr.
Matthew Mlot, gastroenterologist with Wilmington Health, “We
try to put patients into risk categories that determine when the
screening is done. The potential is high enough by age 50, even
if the patient has no symptoms, that we routinely start colon
screenings.” He says that in people with higher risks, it may be
done earlier. The colonoscopy procedure has been rendered less
frightening by the introduction of Prpofol, a new sedation drug.
“It’s dripped into the vein, you go to sleep in about ten seconds,
you wake up rapidly, the recovery time is shortened. You don’t
remember a thing,” says Dr. Meyer.
Gastroenterology is not the same as gastroenterological surgery
or as colon and rectal (proctology) surgery, which are specialty
branches of general surgery.
Fellowship in Gastroenterology