Category: Fellowship

10.9.22: Colonoscopy in Colorectal Practice: The Good, The Bad, the Essential with Dr. David Kleiman

Dr. Kleiman is a staff surgeon in the Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, MA, and holds an academic appointment of Assistant Professor of Surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine. A native of New Jersey, he completed the combined BA/MD program at Rutgers University & Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He then completed his general surgery residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center and then a fellowship in colon & rectal surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital – Cornell & Columbia Campuses and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Kleiman joined the staff of Lahey in 2017 and currently serves as the Director of Robotic Colorectal Surgery and is the Program Director of the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer (NAPRC) initiative. He is an active member of ASCRS and currently serves as the Vice-Chair of the Young Surgeons Committee as well as a member of several other committees.  His clinical interests include colorectal cancer, diverticulitis, inflammatory bowel disease, robotic and laparoscopic colorectal surgery, and advanced endoscopic resection of large colorectal polyps.

Medical Management of IBD with Dr. Uma Mahadevan (10/2/22)

Dr. Uma Mahadevan is an internationally renowned gastroenterologist and clinical scientist specializing in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), particularly pregnancy and drug safety. She completed a medical degree at the State University of New York in Brooklyn, residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, and a fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She did an advanced fellowship in IBD at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Mahadevan currently serves as Professor of Medicine at UCSF, Director of the UCSF Colitis and Crohn’s Disease Center and Director of the Advanced IBD Fellowship. 

Dr. Mahadevan specializes in the treatment of complex ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. She is a global expert on the management of pregnancy and drug safety in the patient with IBD. She is also interested in the role of diet and IBD and has an ongoing original study in this area. Her current projects include a national prospective registry of pregnancy outcomes and drug safety in women with IBD on immunosuppressive and biologic medications (PIANO), clinical trials in biologic therapy for IBD, and the impact of nutritional interventions in the management of IBD (SEAMUS).