The Orlando Health Digestive Health Institute is an international destination for care, offering a full range of services to diagnose and manage conditions affecting the digestive tract and digestive organs. In addition to offering best-in-class clinical care, our world-renowned team is also committed to innovation, leading research and educational initiatives around the globe.
Here are some examples of what sets us apart:
Our Institute
- One of only six healthcare facilities in Florida performing peroral endoscopic myotomy
- One of just four locations in the United States with extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) integrated within the endoscopy unit, enabling seamless implementation
- Only facility in Florida to offer NaviCam technology to diagnose gastrointestinal tract conditions
- Among very few programs in the world to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) with endoscopic ultrasound procedures to improve performance
- Development of technology, together with industry partners, that integrates AI with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) to reduce radiation exposure to patients and providers
- Collaboration with professional and industry partners to integrate AI in endoscopic technology to detect early cancer in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)
Our Team
- Developed a new protocol for the management of necrotizing pancreatitis, known as the “Orlando Protocol”
- Pioneered several research findings that are incorporated in Gastrointestinal Professional Society guidelines for the management of pancreatitis
- Former president of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy in Dr. Robert Hawes
- Authored more than 2,000 articles published in peer-reviewed journals
- Best-selling endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) textbook in the world, Endosonography, authored by Dr. Robert Hawes and Dr. Shyam Varadarajulu
Our Future
- Develop an evidence-based protocol for the management of colon polyps utilizing leading-edge techniques and technologies
- Establish a liver transplant program, with a target date of 2025
- Become home to the most comprehensive motility unit in the southern United States
- Build the most comprehensive IBD center of excellence in Central Florida
- Create subspecialty fellowships in hepatology, motility and IBD, in addition to gastrointestinal and advanced endoscopy fellowships
- Host the largest institution-sponsored endoscopy/EUS congress in the United States
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