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The Digestive Disease Center
The Digestive Disease Center Designs Itself To Be A Leader in The Care For People Suffering With Digestive Diseases Such As Crohns, IBD, Ulcerative Colitis
The Digestive Disease Center Is Proud To Refer Patients To Baylor College Of Medicine.
Our Center will strive to provide excellence in personalized health care and will offer you access to some of the finest doctors working in the field of digestive disease.
Are you in the Texas Gulf coast area and are in need of the best care in the region? Please contact us and we will facilitate the best care you can find.
The referral of The Digestive Disease Center to Baylor College Of Medicine is designing a program like no other in the nation, and our process of care for you will provide you with a team of care givers that will deliver that level of excellence to you.
In our program, your case will be followed by:
Dr. Hashem El-Serag
Professor of Medicine
Chief Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Baylor College of Medicine
GI Section Chief, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center.
Dr. El-Serag will be assisted by:
Dr. Harold Shelby
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Gastroenterology.
Should your condition require a surgical consult, we are very pleased to announce Dr. Charles Brunicardi has joined in overseeing our referrals.
Dr. Charles Brunicardi
Dr. Charles Brunicardi is the DeBakey/Bard Professor and Chair of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine since April 1999. He joined the Baylor faculty in 1995 as a Professor of Surgery and as the George Jordan Professor and Chief of the Division of General Surgery. Dr. Brunicardi has served as the Chief of Surgical Services and the Chief of the Clinical General Surgery Service at Methodist Hospital from 1995-2004, as well as Executive Director of the Multi-Organ Transplant Center from 1995-1999. He is also a consultant and attending surgeon at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Ben Taub General Hospital, and St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital.
Dr. Brunicardi’s areas of specialty include gastroenterology, pancreas cancer, breast cancer, and minimally invasive surgery.
We are also very proud of the addition of Dr. Joel Joselevitz:
Dr. Joel Joselevitz, MD, PA
Dr. Joselevitz is a native of Mexico, where he graduated from medical school and performed a year of residency. He went on to serve a year of internship and three years of residency in New Jersey. He established a private practice in 1992, during which time he was also the medical director of Warm Springs Rehabilitation Hospital for three years.
Dr. Joselevitz is board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation and pain medicine. He has published several
articles in professional journals and is a member of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the Harris County Medical Society, the Texas Medical Association, the ISIS, the Interventional Spine Injection Society and the Texas Pain Society.
The committment to excellence of your care will be provided by other members of the Baylor Team and the patient advocacy of The Digestive Disease Center as well.
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Our Mission
The mission of the Center is to facilitate excellence in on-going Digestive Diseases care, research, promote translational research between basic care and clinical areas, develop new projects, nurture new investigators, and provide GI educational activities. The DDC will pursue excellent patient care as it's main goal. Pilot/Feasibility and Enrichment Programs to support innovative ideas and new investigators in Digestive Disease research and foster collaboration are a key part of our Center. The Center will draw together a multidisciplinary group of doctors, nurses, investigators, including basic scientists with proven track records of success, and well-coordinated clinical programs dealing with pediatric and adult GI patients.
Center leaders are to be senior doctors-administrators experienced in directing interactive, multidisciplinary programs. A large, multi-ethnic population of infants through adults with Digestive Diseases emphasizes the need and the opportunities for this Center. Various groups involved in GI research and education in the Medical Center Area of Houston, or of The Woodlands will be working with the Center.
A Ministering Spirit
She has been hospitalized 50 times from 24 hours to 2 months since 95, and has had 15 surgeries including the removal of approximately 12 feet of her intestine over the course of several surgeries, a hip replacement (due to the aggressive use of steroids for too long a time) and three "re-do" surgeries when whatever they tried didn't do what they thought it would.
Beth has been hospitalized during birthdays, first time to drive, anniversaries, Thanksgivings, Christmas, new years, Easter, every other holiday of distinction, and countless after school events. Over the last several years infections have been the problems that have caused most of the hospitalizations. Beth usually will actually come out weaker then when she went in, because after a period of time your condition actually deteriorates, hence the subsequent infections while in isolation.
Only one thing has remained constant, and that was no matter how sick Beth was, and there were times she has been near death, no matter how bad it was, everyone who came in contact with her was just knocked over by her tremendous spirit. Our Father has blessed Beth with a ministering spirit that is truly something to behold.
There has been times where nurses and doctors have been a bit disbelieving in how sick Beth is because of her ebullience, her smile belying her condition. It is hard to understand what she goes through when you are talking to her because its always so easy to be with her, it is hard to understand how bad she feels when there is that smile.
We have been married for 32 years and it has never ceased to amaze me how disarming Beth can be. She has never met a stranger, never known anybody for more then a moment, it seems, before they are smiling with her, and then wrapped in that loving hug. I can't tell you the number of times nurses come to Beth to pray with her, to have Beth pray for them, it is truly God at work. Although her disease has brought much suffering into our family, God has blessed us richly through it. It has brought us closer together as a family. It has brought us closer to God as we watch Him pour tangible blessings on us. The people we have met, the lives Beth has touched have brought us to a place where every day there are real affirmations of our Loving Father. His mercy and grace shine through Beth and I thank God every time I think of her.
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