Our Team

Maisa Abdalla, MD, MPH

Clinical expertise: Inflammatory bowel diseases, including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, and all aspects of general gastroenterology and hepatology

Nicholas Bartell, MD

Clinical expertise: General gastroenterology and hepatology with a special interest in medical pancreatology

Tanya Bruckel, MD
Medical Director of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Endoscopy at UR Sawgrass
Associate Program Director, Gastroenterology Fellowship Training Program
Safety and Quality Officer, Gastroenterology division

Clinical expertise: General gastroenterology and hepatology with a special interest in inflammatory bowel disease

Janice Cheong, MD

Clinical expertise: General gastroenterology and hepatology with a special interest in motility

Naoki Chiba, MD, MSc

Clinical expertise: General gastroenterology and hepatology

Michelle D'Souza, MD

Clinical expertise: Inflammatory bowel diseases, including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis; colorectal cancer; liver cirrhosis; gastroesophageal reflux disease

Arthur J. DeCross, MD

Clinical expertise: Inflammatory bowel diseases, including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, celiac disease, and the specialized nutritional support of gastrointestinal disorders

Priya Farooq, MD

Clinical expertise: Liver transplant (pre- and post-transplant care), cirrhotic and chronic liver disease, viral and autoimmune hepatitis, hepatic encephalopathy, hepatobiliary malignancies and other liver diseases

Alexandra France, MD

General gastroenterology and hepatology, with a special interest in obesity, nutrition, and their impact on gastrointestinal health and disease

Vivek Kaul, MD, FACG

Clinical expertise: Advanced therapeutic endoscopy, Endoscopic Ultrasound, ERCP, Esophageal Endotherapy and Hepatobiliary disease

Robert Kornfield, MD

Clinical expertise: General gastroenterology and hepatology

Shivangi T. Kothari, MD
Therapeutic Endoscopy Lead

Clinical expertise: Interventional endoscopic ultrasound, advanced therapeutic ERCP, esophageal endotherapy for Barrett’s esophagus, double balloon enteroscopy, and pancreatic-biliary disorders

Research interests: Development of EUS FNA techniques, endoscopic ablation and therapy of Barrett’s esophagus, and evaluation of new devices and technology in the diagnosis and treatment of biliary and pancreatic diseases

Marie Laryea, MDCM, FRCPC

Clinical expertise: Liver transplant (pre- and post-transplant care), cirrhotic and chronic liver disease, viral and autoimmune hepatitis, hepatic encephalopathy, hepatobiliary malignancies and other liver diseases

Timothy J. Lee, MD

Clinical expertise: All aspects of general gastroenterology and hepatology

Mark A. Levstik, MBBC, LRCPI, LRCSI, BAO, FRCP(C)
Segal-Watson Professor in Medicine
Chief, Comprehensive Liver Center
Chief, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Clinical expertise: Liver transplant (pre- and post-transplant care), cirrhotic and chronic liver disease, viral and autoimmune hepatitis, hepatic encephalopathy, hepatobiliary malignancies and other liver diseases

Research interests: Liver transplant quality, live donor liver transplantation and non-invasive liver fibrosis measurement (FibroScan)

Danielle Marino, MD
Medical Director of the Hereditary Cancer Screening and Risk Reduction Program

Clinical expertise: All aspects of general gastroenterology and liver disease, with particular interest in eosinophilic esophagitis, inflammatory bowel disease, colon cancer screening and prevention, and the diagnosis and management of hereditary cancer syndromes

Research interests: Quality improvement

Natalie Mitchell, MD
Associate Director, Gastroenterology Fellowship Training Program

Clinical expertise: General gastroenterology and hepatology

Sahaj Mujumdar, MD

Clinical expertise: General gastroenterology and hepatology

Gopal Ramaraju, MD

Clinical expertise: Liver transplant (pre- and post-transplant care), cirrhotic and chronic liver disease, viral and autoimmune hepatitis, hepatic encephalopathy, hepatobiliary malignancies and other liver diseases

Lawrence J. Saubermann, MD
URMC GI Lead at Highland Hospital

Clinical expertise: Inflammatory bowel disease

Ashish Sharma, MD

Clinical expertise: Advanced endoscopic procedures

Brandon S. Sprung, MD
Section Lead, General GI
Program Director, Gastroenterology Fellowship Training Program

Clinical expertise: General gastroenterology and inflammatory bowel disease

Patrick Twohig, MD, MPH

Clinical expertise: General gastroenterology and hepatology

Asad Ullah, MD

Clinical expertise: Advanced endoscopic procedures, including endoscopic ultrasound and the study of bile and pancreas ducts (ERCP); pancreaticobiliary disease, GI malignancies and gastroenterology consultations

Dennis Wang, MD

Robin Wilson, MD
Assistant Program Director for Research, Gastroenterology Fellowship Training Program

Clinical expertise: General gastroenterology and hepatology

Lawrence J. Saubermann, MD

Research interest: Intestinal mucosal immune system and how it is involved in inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, microscopic/lymphocytic colitis, and celiac sprue

David Yule, PhD

Research interest: Intracellular calcium signaling in cells

Chelsea DiBella
Senior Human Subjects Research Coordinator

Kailyn Estabrooks
Human Subjects Research Coordinator

Munazza Zakir-Ullah
Human Subjects Research Coordinator

Jordan Barber, NP

MacKenzie Both, PA

Julia Burke, PA

Eric Chow, PA-C

Molly Crevier, NP

Jessica D’Acquisto, NP

Allison D'Angelo, PA

Katherine Dey, NP

Colin Donahoe, PA

Sarah Enslin, RPA-C
 Lead APP

Annalisa Foster, PA

Katherine Gorski, PA

Gianna Herlihy, NP

Victoria Howard, PA-C
Lead APP

Joseph Ippolito, NP

Sarah McPherson, NP

Sarah Mohammadi, PA

Alex O'Brien, NP

Courtney Preston, NP

Jamie Sanna, NP

Jacob Scott, PA

Jessica L. Woods, NP

Allison Zeznick, PA

Richard Padula, MS
Division Administrator

Courtney Holtz, BSN, RN-BC
Assistant Director of Ambulatory Nursing for GI

Season Pucci (Eggleston), MS, RN
Nurse Manager for AC4-GI

Nina Farnsworth, BSN, RN, AMB-BC
Nurse Manager, Sawgrass & AC5 Clinic; Navigation

Jamie Gaskin BSN, RN, CGRN
Nurse Manager, Sawgrass GI Endoscopy

Jessica DeLaura, BA
Sr. Financial Analyst

Sadie Hendrickson
Faculty Affairs Administrator

Meghan Cloutier, MD

Residency
University of Buffalo

Medical School
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo

Paul George, MD

Residency
Boston Medical Center

Medical School
Boston University School of Medicine

Michael Tiongson, MD

Residency
University of Rochester

Medical School
Albany Medical College

Marisa Wu, MD

Residency
Boston University Medical Center

Medical School
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

Kathleen Cheng, MD

Residency
Boston University

Medical School
David & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Balaji Jagdish, DO

Residency
Alleghany General Hospital

Medical School
Kansas City University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Christopher Swisher, MD

Residency
Boston University

Medical School
Georgetown University School of Medicine

Junseo Lee, MD

Residency
George Washington University Residency Program

Medical School
Florida State University College of Medicine

Sofia Shaikh, MD

Residency
Boston Medical Center Internal Residency Program

Medical School
Drexel University College of Medicine

Daniel Weinberg, MD

Residency
Duke University, Residency Program

Medical School
Boston University School of Medicine

Anuroop Yekula, MBBS

Residency
Saint Vincent Hospital, Residency Program

Medical School
Guntur Medical College