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
Primary clinical site
HonorHealth Deer Valley Medical Center
Participating sites
- HonorHealth Deer Valley Medical Center
- HonorHealth Scottsdale Thompson Peak Medical Center
- Gastroenterology Clinic HonorHealth Medical Group – Deer Valley, Shea, Thompson Peak
- HonorHealth Scottsdale Shea Medical Center
- HonorHealth Scottsdale Osborn Medical Center
- North Valley Surgery Center
- Deer Valley Surgery Center
- Mayo Clinic Scottsdale
- Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center
- Phoenix Children’s Hospital
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
- Esophageal and foregut disease
- Pediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition
- Electives Global Health
- Individual learning plan
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