USF Health Division of Digestive Diseases & Nutrition Physicians

• Joel Richter, MD, FACP, MACG
  

  Hugh F. Culverhouse Chair for Esophageal Disorders Director, Division of Digestive Diseases & Nutrition Director, Joy McCann Culverhouse Center for Swallowing Disorders
  jrichte1@health.usf.edu

• Patrick Brady, MD
  

  Professor, Internal Medicine
  Digestive Diseases & Nutrition
  Director, TGH Endoscopy
  pbrady@health.usf.edu

• Jay Mamel, MD
  

  Professor, Internal Medicine
  Digestive Disease & Nutrition
  Director, Morsani Center Endoscopy
  jmamel@health.usf.edu

• Soojong Chae, MD
  

  Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
  Digestive Diseases & Nutrition
  Director, GI Fellowship Program
  schae1@health.usf.edu

• Rene Gomez Esquivel, MD
  

  Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
  Digestive Disease & Nutrition
  rdgomeze@health.usf.edu

• Pushpak Taunk, MD
  

  Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
  Digestive Dis. & Nutrition
  Director, Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship
  ptaunk@health.usf.edu

• Jay Jacobs, MD
  

  Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
  Digestive Diseases & Nutrition/Swallowing Center
  Director, Morsani GI Clinic
  Associate Director, GI Fellowship Program
  
  jjacobs@health.usf.edu

• Renee Marchioni Beery, DO
  

  Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
  Digestive Disease & Nutrition
  Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center
  renee41@health.usf.edu

VA Faculty

• Prasad Kulkarni, MD
  

  Professor, Internal Medicine
  Digestive Dis. & Nutrition
  pkulkarn@health.usf.edu

• Jeffrey Gill
  

  Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Digestive Dis. & Nutrition
  

• Jonathan Keshishian
  

  
  

• Donald  Amodeo, MD
  

  Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine,
  Digestive Dis. & Nutrition
  

• Susan  Goldsmith, MD
  

  Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine,
  Digestive Dis. & Nutrition
  

• Gitanjali Vidyarthi, MD
  

  Associate Professor, Internal Medicine,
  Digestive Dis. & Nutrition
  

• Carla Duffoo, MD
  

  
  

• Dennis Lafoo, MD
  

  
  

• Reynaldo Geerken, MD
  

  Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine,
  Digestive Dis. & Nutrition
  

Moffitt

• Mark Friedman
  

  Assistant Member, Gastrointestinal Tumor Program Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Oncologic Sciences
  

• Jason Klapman, MD, FASGE
  

  Director of Endoscopy
  Associate Member, Gastrointestinal Tumor Program
  Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Oncologic Sciences
  

• Luis R. Pena, MD, FACG, AGAF
  

  Associate Member, Gastrointestinal Tumor Program
  Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Oncologic Sciences
  

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TGH Hepatology

TGH Hepatology

• Nyingi Kemmer, MD, MPH, MSc
  

  Medical School: University of Sokoto (Sokoto, Nigeria)
  
  Residency: Cook County Hospital (Chicago, IL)
  
  Fellowship: University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston, TX)
  Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation (La Jolla, CA)
  

• Christopher Albers, MD
  

  Medical School: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (Cincinnati, OH)
  
  Residency: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (Cincinnati, OH)
  
  Fellowship: University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (Cincinnati, OH)
  

• Saurabh Agrawal, MD
  

  Medical School: Federal University of Paraiba School of Medicine (Campina Grande, Brazil)
  
  Residency: Cleveland Clinic, Internal Medicine (Cleveland, OH)
  
  Fellowship: Indiana University School of Medicine, Gastroenterology & Hepatology (Indianapolis, IN)
  
  Carolinas Medical Center, University of North Carolina, Transplant Hepatology (Charlotte, NC)
  
  Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Clinical and Basic Science Research, Hepatology (Boston, MA)
  

• Rashid  Syed, MD
  

  Medical School: Aga Kan University Medical College
  (Karachi, Pakistan)
  Residency: Westchester Medical Center (Valhalla, NY)
  Fellowship:  USF, Hepatology and Transplant
  Oschsner Medical Center, Gastroenterology (New Orleans, LA)