
Maisa Abdalla, M.D., M.P.H.
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Maisa Abdalla, M.D., M.P.H.
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180 Sawgrass Drive, Suite 230, 2nd Floor
Rochester, NY 14620
156 West Avenue, Suite 107
Brockport, NY 14420
601 Elmwood Avenue, Ambulatory Care Center, 4th & 5th Floor
Rochester, NY 14642
About Me
Professional Background
Dr. Abdalla received her Medical degree from the University of Jordan and MPH degree in public health policy and administration from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at UIC-advocate Christ Program in 2011 and her fellowship training in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Rochester in 2015. After that, She spent a year at the University of North Carolina for additional training in IBD. Her first post-training academic job was at Loma Linda University (LLU) in Southern California, where she served as a full-time faculty member with academic rank of Assistant Professor of Medicine between 2016 and late 2020. During her tenure at LLU and as the Medical Director for the Gastroenterology Clinic and the Director of the IBD center, she was able to restructure the IBD clinics, create therapy protocols and clinical pathways to monitor patients and improve their access. She also worked closely with her colorectal surgery colleagues and other ancillary services to provide a true multidisciplinary care for all patients. She helped restructure the IBD curriculum for GI fellowship training and directly participated in education sessions to patients, and internal medicine and GI trainees. In January 2021, she moved back to Rochester to join the gastroenterology team at the University of Rochester, where she continues to provide excellent patients’ care, participate in clinical research and work with a dedicated team under the leadership of Dr. Arthur Decross to build a state of art multidisciplinary IBD center.
Faculty Appointments
Assistant Professor - Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology/Hepatology (SMD)
Credentials
Residency & Fellowship
Fellowship, University of North Carolina Healthcare-CRNA verifs. 2015 - 2016
Fellowship, Gastroenterology, University of Rochester Medical Center. 2012 - 2015
Residency, Internal Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine-Chicago. 2008 - 2012
Internship, Jordan University Hospital (Amman). 2006 - 2007
Education
MPH | University of Illinois College of Medicine (USA). 2014
MBCHB | University of Jordan (Jordan). 2006
Awards
Young investigator award. 2016
Travel grant to attend the 2015 Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Crohn's and Colitis Foundation's Clinical & Research Con. 2015
Travel Grant to attend the Advances in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Crohn's & Colitis Foundation's Clinical and Research Confere. 2014
CCFA's National Visiting IBD Fellow Rotation Program. 2014
Excellence In Research Award. 2011
Academic Excellence Award. 2011
Voted Intern of The Year. 2009
Partial Tuition University Sponsored Scholarship. 2001 - 2002
Research
Publications
Journal Articles
Long MD, Afzali A, Fischer M, Hudesman D, Abdalla M, McCabe R, Cohen BL, Ungaro RC, Harlan W, Hanson J, Konijeti G, Polyak S, Ritter T, Salzberg B, Seminerio J, English E, Zhang X, Sharma PP, Herfarth HH
Inflammatory bowel diseases.. 2022 June 14 Epub 06/14/2022.
Xu Y, Baylink DJ, Cao H, Xiao J, Abdalla MI, Wasnik S, Tang X
International journal of molecular sciences.. 2021 September 122 (17)Epub 09/01/2021.
Abdalla MI, Levesque BG
The American journal of gastroenterology.. 2021 June 1116 (6):1187-1188. Epub 1900 01 01.
Matthew Berger; Maisa Abdalla; Arthur DeCross.
Crohn's & Colitis 360. 2021; 3(4): 1-3.
Gao Y, Gupta N, Abdalla M
Case reports in gastrointestinal medicine. 2021 2021 :5543838. Epub 03/30/2021.
Abdalla M, Herfarth H
Journal of Crohn's & colitis.. 2018 June 2812 (7):757-759. Epub 1900 01 01.
Abdalla MI, Sandler RS, Kappelman MD, Martin CF, Chen W, Anton K, Long MD
Inflammatory bowel diseases.. 2017 February 23 (2):325-331. Epub 1900 01 01.
Abdalla MI, Sandler RS, Kappelman MD, Martin CF, Chen W, Anton K, Long MD
Inflammatory bowel diseases.. 2016 November 22 (11):2658-2664. Epub 1900 01 01.
Abdalla MI, Herfarth H
Expert opinion on pharmacotherapy.. 2016 August 17 (11):1549-59. Epub 06/16/2016.
Abdalla M, Sheikh SZ
Clinical and translational gastroenterology.. 2016 March 317 :e160. Epub 03/31/2016.
Steevens C, Abdalla M, Kothari TH, Kaul V, Kothari S
World journal of gastrointestinal pharmacology and therapeutics.. 2015 November 66 (4):248-52. Epub 1900 01 01.
Melson J, Desai V, Greenspan M, Yau S, Abdalla M, Dhanekula R, Mobarhan S, Shapiro D, Losurdo J, Jakate S
Diseases of the esophagus : official journal of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus. 2015 October 28 (7):660-5. Epub 06/18/2014.
Abdalla M, Dhanekula R, Greenspan M, Mobarhan S, Patil A, Jakate S, Giusto D, Silva R, Li H, Melson J
Diseases of the esophagus : official journal of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus. 2014 August 27 (6):505-10. Epub 09/28/2012.
Books
DDSEP 9 - Digestive Disease Self-Education Program (2019)
Chapter: Chapter 13 - Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Authors: Chapter authors - Gary R. Lichtenstein, Yecheskel Schneider. Questions writers - Abdalla M, Long M, Ha C, Dalal S.
Publisher: AGA institute, MD, USA 2019