Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Overview

Dr. Elaine Yong, Interim Division Head

The Division of Gastroenterology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre consists of 7 faculty members. The faculty provide consultative and endoscopic services at both Sunnybrook and Holland campuses and serve the Odette Cancer Centre community. At the Sunnybrook campus both inpatient and outpatient care is provided, with areas of clinical expertise including inflammatory bowel disease, therapeutic endoscopy, viral hepatitis and HIV co-infection, chronic liver disease, cirrhosis and gastrointestinal cancer care (including colorectal cancer screening and hereditary colon cancer).

The members of the Division participate in pioneering clinical research projects. Other research interests include medical education, patient safety and quality improvement, endoscopic bariatrics, gastrointestinal cancers, and health service utilization of GI services in Ontario.

The Division also provides a broad educational experience at multiple levels of medical training from medical students and residents to subspecialty fellows.