Provider Profile

Medical Services

• Fatty Liver Center
• Digestive Health Institute
• Hepatitis C Center
• Liver Transplant Program
• Liver Tumor Center
• Medicine
• Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson
• Transplant Institute

Board Certifications

• Internal Medicine
• Gastroenterology
• Transplant Hepatology

Hospital Affiliation / Admitting Privileges

• Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
• Methodist Hospital Division of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Education

• Temple University School of Medicine, Medical School

Residency

• Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Fellowship

• Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Jefferson physicians accept most health insurance plans, including those listed below. However, plan acceptance may vary by practice and may be subject to change. If you have questions about whether a specific physician accepts your insurance, please contact your insurance company.

Insurances Accepted

• Aetna
• Aetna PA Employee Benefit Trust Fund (PEBTF)
• Amer Assoc Retired Persons (AARP)
• AmeriHealth
• Amerihealth 65
• AmeriHealth Comprehensive
• AmeriHealth HMO
• AmeriHealth Major Medical
• AmeriHealth Personal Choice
• Berkshire Health Partners
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Delaware
• Cigna Healthspring
• Cigna PPO, POS
• Consumer Health Network PPO
• CorVel
• Coventry/Health America
• Devon
• Empire BC/BS
• Employers Health Network PPO
• Evolutions (Guardian Resources)
• Federal BCBS
• First Health Network
• Fortified Provider Network
• Galaxy
• Geisinger Health Plan
• Health America PPO
• Health Management Network PPO
• Horizon Blue Cross/Blue Shield
• HumanaChoicePPO,Medicare,GoldPlusHMO
• Inter-County Health Plan
• Intergroup Preferred
• Jeff Plus
• Keystone 65 HMO
• Keystone First VIP Choice
• Keystone Health Plan East
• Medicare
• Mercy LIFE
• MultiPlan Inc.
• One Net PPO
• Personal Choice (GPPPN)
• Personal Choice 65
• PlanCare America
• Preferred Care PPO
• Prime Health Services, Inc.
• Provider Select Inc
• Qualcare
• Tricare
• United Healthcare
• UPMC HMO,PPO ReadingHspEmpONLY
• UPMC Medicare HMO
• US Family Health Plan

Conditions

• Alcohol Induced Liver Disease
• Alcoholic Hepatitis
• Autoimmune Hepatitis
• Cirrhosis
• Drug Induced Hepatitis
• Fatty Liver Disease
• Hepatitis A
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C
• Liver Cancer
• Peritonitis
• Viral Hepatitis

Tests

• Colonoscopy
• Sigmoidoscopy
• Upper Endoscopy

Recent Publications

Incidence, determinants and outcomes of pregnancy-associated hepatitis B flares: A regional hospital-based cohort study

Obstetricians’ and gynecologists’ knowledge, education, and practices regarding chronic hepatitis b in pregnancy

Pilot study of the prevalence of binge eating disorder in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease patients

Listing practices for morbidly obese patients at liver transplantation centers in the United States

Primary pancreatic lymphoma presenting as acute pancreatitis

Management of the Liver Transplant Recipient: Approach to Allograft Dysfunction

Training directors have positive perceptions of a competency-based gastroenterology and transplant hepatology fellowship program

Training the next generation of hepatologist: What will they need to know?

Spiral Enteroscopy Utilizing Capsule Location Index for Achieving High Diagnostic and Therapeutic Yield

Complementary and alternative medications in hepatitis C infection

Then and now: The progress in hepatitis B treatment over the past 20 years

Prevention of hepatocellular carcinoma and its recurrence with anti-hepatitis B viral therapy

Treatment of severe alcoholic hepatitis with corticosteroids and pentoxifylline

Hepatotoxicity of cardiovascular and antidiabetic drugs

Sleep disorders and the prevalence of asymptomatic nocturnal acid and non-acid reflux

Limited Sampling Estimates of Epigallocatechin Gallate Exposures in Cirrhotic and Noncirrhotic Patients With Hepatitis C After Single Oral Doses of Green Tea Extract

Drug-induced hepatotoxicity in humans