Gastroenterology Fellowship Program

The mission of the Gastroenterology Fellowship Program is to provide fellows with a well-rounded education and training experience so that they can provide exceptional patient care and competent comprehensive assessments and management of patients with acute and chronic gastrointestinal and liver disease in our community and become proficient gastroenterologists in all cognitive and procedural aspects, in a quality, patient-centered environment that is highly focused on safety, so they will be able to excel in clinical practice in a community-based setting. The program will promote the goal of continuous practice improvement, with a life-long commitment to learning.

Program aims

Fellows rotate through hospitals and clinics in different geographical areas affording them exposure to patients from different economic, social and cultural backgrounds and an opportunity to manage gastrointestinal disease across diverse groups.
Formal endoscopic training on simulators and animal models, along with an opportunity to perform a wide range of endoscopic procedures on patients, all with direct faculty supervision.
Supervised inpatient and outpatient care, including continuity clinic. Fellows perform detailed evaluations and assessments and are responsible for providing patients with timely laboratory results, x-ray findings and procedure and pathology findings. Faculty assessment and feedback of fellows and fellows of faculty.
Weekly multidisciplinary clinical conferences and weekly didactic learning including core curricula lectures, discussion of challenging cases, advancing research and presentation opportunities and board review.
Opportunity to rotate through a tertiary care hepatology center with exposure to complex hepatology patients and transplant hepatology.

Our program is 36 months in length and can be undertaken after successful completion of an internal medicine residency from an ACGME-accredited training program.

Fellowship director

Gavin Levinthal, MD
Fellowship: Mount Sinai Medical Center and MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio - Gastroenterology
Residency: Mount Sinai Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio – Internal Medicine
Medical School: University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Application information

HonorHealth's Gastroenterology fellowship program accepts applications through the Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS). The program's positions are filled through the National Resident Matching Program's (NRMP) Specialty Matching Services. The program does not sponsor visas. To be eligible to apply, applicants must have successfully completed three years of postgraduate training in an ACGME-accredited program in Internal Medicine in the U.S. and be board-eligible or board-certified.

Interested applicants should complete the application through ERAS.

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Primary clinical site

HonorHealth Deer Valley Medical Center

Participating sites

HonorHealth Deer Valley Medical Center
HonorHealth Scottsdale Thompson Peak Medical Center
HonorHealth Scottsdale Shea Medical Center
Gastroenterology Clinic HonorHealth Medical Group – Deer Valley, Shea, Thompson Peak
Mayo Clinic Scottsdale
North Valley Surgery Center
Deer Valley Surgery Center

Core faculty

Gavin Levinthal, MD
Joseph Fares, MD
Mehul Patel, DO
David Chascsa, MD

Meet the fellows

Fellow bios (PDF)

Rotations

Gastroenterology continuity clinic
Gastroenterology consult and inpatient procedures
Endoscopy
Research experience
Gastroenterology outpatient ambulatory clinic
Hepatology and transplant hepatology
Advanced and interventional endoscopy
Electives

Additional resources

Contact us

If you have questions or would like to learn more about the HonorHealth Gastroenterology Fellowship program, please contact: gastroenterologyfellowship@honorhealth.com