Areas of Treatment:

• Gastrointestinal motility disorders, and in particular:
• Gastroesophageal reflux disease
• swallowing disorders
• esophageal motor disorders
• gastroparesis
• intestinal pseudo-obstruction

Specialties:

• Gastroenterology

Title:

• Professor of Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine/Division of Gastroenterology

Department:

• Department of Medicine

Locations:

• HCC II
• Keck Hospital of USC

Background:

Research interest: electrical stimulation of the GI tract

Education:

• Doctor of Medicine, Technion School of Medicine, Israel, 1971 - 1974

Internships:

• Coney Island Hospital, Medicine, 1976 - 1977

Residencies:

• Coney Island Hospital, Medicine, 1977 - 1979

Fellowships:

• University of Tenessee, Center for the Health Sciences, Medicine, 1979 - 1981
• University of Iowa Hospital/Clicic, Department of Internal Medicine Gastroenterology, 1982 - 1983
• London Hospital Medical College, Gastroenterology Science Research Unit, 1987 - 1988

Board Certification:

• American Board of Internal Medicine
• American Board of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology

Professional Society Memberships:

• American Gastroenterological Association, 1985 - present
• American Motility Society, 1990 - present
• American College of Gastroenterology, Fellow, 1996 - present
• International Electrogastrography Society, 2002 - present

Languages:

• English