Synergy Pharmaceuticals, a developer of gastrointestinal disorder and disease drugs, has announced its appointment of gastroenterologist Gail Comer, MD, as chief medical officer.
Griffin Bariatrics, a bariatric surgery center in Derby, Conn., has welcomed Rishi Ramlogan, MD, to its staff of surgeons.
Ramaswamaiah Chandrasekhara, MD, has joined Central Florida Health Care in Avon Park, Fla. He had been practicing at Bond Clinic in Winter Haven, Fla.
Jerome Craig Cohen, MD, has been re-elected speaker of the Medical Society of the State of New York. Dr. Cohen, who is board-certified in both internal medicine and gastroenterology, is an active staff physician at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton, N.Y., as well as at United Health Services in Johnson City, N.Y. He is also clinical associate professor of medicine at the Binghamton campus of SUNY Upstate Medical Center.
Banner Medical Group in Phoenix has named gastroenterologist G. Anton Decker, MD, as its chief medical officer. Dr. Decker comes to the organization after a 10-year career at the Mayo Clinic, where he served as director of the gastroenterology hospital practice, program director for the gastroenterology fellowship and medical director of the pancreas clinic.
Northwest Community Healthcare’s Medical Group, which serves Northern Illinois, has announced the acquisition of the private practice of gastroenterologist Nikos Christopoulos, MD.
Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia has announced Scott Waldman, MD, a member of Jefferson’s Kimmel Cancer Center, has been awarded a Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement grant to help advance a molecular diagnostic test for colon cancer into commercialization.
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