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Orlando Health Digestive Health Institute is recognized as an international destination for care related to digestive diseases. Our faculty includes highly reputed experts who have published extensively, conducted numerous cutting-edge clinical trials, served as leaders in professional societies, officiated as editors in high impact journals and edited leading textbooks that include Endosonography by Shyam Varadarajulu and Robert Hawes and Sleisenger and Fordtran’s Gastrointestinal and Liver Disease by Mel Wilcox. 

Program Director

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Mahendran Jayaraj, MD

Program Director

Associate Program Director

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Sunina Nathoo, MD

Associate Program Director

Faculty

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Mitali Agarwal, MD

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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Ji Young Bang, MD

Advanced Endoscopy

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Christina Ruth Covelli, MD

Gastroenterology

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Robert H. Hawes, MD

Advanced Endoscopy

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Arvind R. Murali, MD

Hepatology (Liver)

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Udayakumar Navaneethan, MD

Advanced Endoscopy

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Huy Tran, MD

Motility

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Shyam S. Varadarajulu, MD

Advanced Endoscopy

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C. Mel Wilcox, MD

Pancreatology

Visiting professors

Many prominent international faculty are invited periodically to present at educational events organized by our institute. The fellows will have unrestricted access to attend all educational events.

Florida Digestive Diseases Update

Florida IBD Congress

Florida Live EUS