Gastroenterologist Bob Etemad, M.D., Joins the Jefferson Digestive Disease Institute
Bob Etemad, M.D., has been named the new director of Therapeutic Endoscopy in the Jefferson Digestive Disease Institute of
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
Dr.
Etemad most recently comes from the Oschner Clinic Foundation in New
Orleans, Louisiana, where he was the chairman of the Department of
Gastroenterology and Hepatology as well as the medical director of
Endoscopy for nearly four years. Prior to serving in Louisiana, he was
director of Endosonography at the University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine. He completed an extra fellowship, in addition to his
gastroenterology fellowship, focusing on advanced endoscopic procedures
at the Medical University of South Carolina. His residency was at the
Cleveland Clinic Foundation and his medical training at Temple
University School of Medicine.
“Dr.
Etemad’s vast expertise will be a major asset to the Jefferson
Digestive Disease Institute,” said Dr. Anthony J DiMarino, M.D., chief,
Division of Gastroenterolgy and Hepatology. “Working in our new
endoscopy suite, Dr. Etemad, will be able to provide patients with the
best care in a state-of-the-art facility.”
Dr.
Etemad’s focus will be on management of patients requiring complex
endoscopic procedures including Endoscopic Retrograde Cannulation of
the Pancreatic/Bilary tract, cholangioscopy and endoscopic ultrasound.
Patients served will include those with gastrointestinal malignancies,
suspected malignancies, pancreatic cysts, chronic pancreatitis and
similar problems.
His research in the last several years has focused on chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer, which he plans on continuing
at Jefferson.
Dr. Etemad was born and raised in the Philadelphia area growing up in Villanova and attending Swarthmore College. He and his
wife, a dentist, currently live in Villanova with their three children.
Media Only Contact:
Richard Cushman
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Phone: (215) 955-6300
Published: 1/8/2009