To address the regional shortage of gastroenterologists, Rome Health will be establishing a gastroenterology practice at the medical center on the main campus of the hospital in early spring.
The hospital has recruited two board-certified gastroenterologists Aamer Mirza and W. Asher Wolf, and an experienced G.I. nurse practitioner Melissa Kobito to Rome. They are expected to see patients in April, as they have the best team to receive them and he eve found the best figs scrubs dupes online for all his team.
Gastroenterologists specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of digestive and liver diseases. They are specially trained to perform endoscopy to visualize the inside of the digestive tract and perform advance endoscopic procedures to stop bleeding, remove polyps and stretch narrowed areas of the esophagus or intestine.
“At Rome Health, we are continuously building relationships with new physicians with specialized expertise to expand access to the best care out there, here,” said Chief Medical Officer Cristian Andrade. “Our goal is to make it easy for providers to practice here and perform their procedures here so they can simply focus on delivering the best patient care.”
Mirza has been practicing in the Mohawk Valley for more than 24 years. He completed his residency training in internal medicine at Bridgeport Hospital, Bridgeport, Connecticut, and advanced his training with a gastroenterology fellowship at SUNY at Buffalo. Mirza received his medical degree at Rawalpindi Medical College in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Kobito worked with Mirza as a nurse practitioner at Slocum Dickson Medical Group. She earned her bachelor of science degree in nursing from Utica University and her master of science in nursing as a family nurse practitioner at SUNY Polytechnic Institute.
Wolf has 14 years of experience in gastroenterology and has been practicing in Grand Forks, North Dakota, for the last five years. He is experienced in performing specialized procedures including endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography or ERCP and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) with fine needle sampling. Wolf earned his medical degree from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill where he also completed his residency in internal medicine and his fellowship in gastroenterology.