Colonoscopy near New York, NY

Biography: Dr. Tina Park, MD is a Gastroenterology Specialist who practices in New York, NY. She is 42 years old. Dr. Tina Park, MD is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai Morningside.

Biography: Dr. Forrest Manheimer joined the Division as the Lower Manhattan Hospital Site Director. Dr. Manheimer received his medical degree from the State University of New York Health and Science Center at Brooklyn. He completed his internship, residency and fellowship at New York University NYVA Medical Center. Dr. Manheimer is board certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology.

Biography: Ilan S. Weisberg MD, MAc, is the Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at New York Presbyterian - Brooklyn Methodist Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College. Before returning to NYP, Dr. Weisberg was a member of the medical faculty at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, where he focused his clinical practice on the management of complex liver disease. During that time, he served as the training program director for the gastroenterology fellowship at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Morningside, and West. Dr. Weisberg graduated with honors from Cornell University with a concentration in molecular biology and plant biology, after which he earned an MSc in molecular genetics from McGill University and an MD from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.He then completed a residency in internal medicine at Columbia University Medical College followed by a gastroenterology fellowship at the Weill Cornell campus of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital as well as an additional fellowship in Transplant Hepatology, also at New York Presbyterian. Dr. Weisberg's research interests focus on cirrhosis, viral hepatitis, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and alcohol associated liver diseases with particular interest in health care disparity and outcomes research.Dr. Weisberg has been recognized by his students, patients, and colleagues with multiple teaching and clinical practice awards. He has spoken across the country as a visiting professor and guest lecturer and has been a mentor to dozens of physicians new to gastroenterology and liver disease. Dr. Weisberg has authored many peer-reviewed articles, abstracts, and book chapters and has served as a reviewer for multiple gastroenterology and hepatology journals.

Care Philosophy: Dr Ype de Jong is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University and an Attending Physician, New York-Presbyterian Hospital Cornell campus. He joined the faculty after completing his Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology training at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York. In his patient practice Dr. de Jong's interests include viral hepatitis, Primary Biliary Cirrhosis, and Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease as well as liver disease associated with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. In addition he is trained in general Gastroenterology, including endoscopy and colon cancer screening. His research interests are geared to better understanding how hepatitis viruses can evade the immune system and are able to chronically persist in a subset of those infected. To this end he is working on developing new models for hepatitis C virus infection in the basic science arm of the Center for the Study of Hepatitis C at The Rockefeller University.