At the Center for Metabolic and Weight Loss Surgery, surgeons are pioneering weight loss techniques and continue to refine minimally invasive approaches to advance the field.

Alessio Pigazzi, MD, PhD, one of the nation’s leading colorectal surgeons, has been named Chief of Colorectal Surgery in the Department of Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

Comprehensive GI Clinical Cancer Genetics programs at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital are furthering understanding of inherited cancer syndromes such as Lynch syndrome to facilitate early screening and prevent the development of colorectal cancer.

Faculty profiles and contact for Gastroenterology and GI Surgery

Given our experience and the enormous volume of patients with pancreatic disease that we see here at Columbia, we felt that it was valuable to formalize our treatment of these patients with a full-service program.

Karim J. Halazun, MD, a hepatobiliary and liver transplant surgeon in the Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation at NYP WCMC, has sought ways to improve and optimize the current liver transplantation allocation system.

Researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center have shown that complications stemming from colorectal surgery decreased after introducing a national quality improvement program.

According to researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, common drug treatments that lead to changes in gut fungi can persistently exacerbate allergic airway diseases such as asthma.