Conditions Evaluated and Treated

• Barrett's Esophagus
• Esophageal / UGI tract / anastomotic / colonic strictures (benign, malignant, and refractory)
• GI tract fistulas, leaks, and perforations
• GI tract neoplasms: advanced diagnostics / detection / staging / local therapy
• Gastric and esophagogastric varices
• Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE)
• Small bowel and obscure GI bleeding
• Bile duct stones (choledocholithiasis)
• Biliary tract strictures: benign / post-operative / malignant / indeterminate
• Bile leak
• Pancreatic cysts
• Acute, recurrent, and chronic pancreatitis
• Pancreatic and biliary tract cancers

Procedures Performed

• Diagnostic endoscopic ultrasound: tumor detection / staging / tissue sampling
• Interventional endoscopic ultrasound: celiac block-neurolysis / pseudocyst drainage and necrosectomy / fiducial placement / biliary or pancreatic duct drainage / liver biopsy / gastric varices obliteration
• ERCP: includes ductoscopy / intraductal lithotripsy / endomicroscopy / altered anatomy procedures
• Single-session EUS / ERCP
• Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) / Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD)
• Endoscopic ablation: luminal / biliary
• Endomicroscopy: luminal tract / biliary / pancreas cyst
• Stent placement: luminal tract / pancreatic / biliary
• Endoscopic suturing / clipping
• Device-assisted enteroscopy

Meet Our Team

Our team is comprised of four, full-time interventional endoscopists and ten nurses and assistants. Our physicians are national leaders in the field, recurrent faculty invitees at regional and national meetings, authors of numerous scientific articles, and active in local and multicenter, collaborative clinical research studies. Our nurse and assistant team are all highly trained, experienced, and focused solely on advanced endoscopy procedures. We focus on a team approach to care, and we strive to deliver the highest quality, safe, and timely care to our patients using the most innovative and state-of-the-art techniques and technology.

Physician Team

• Janak N. Shah, MD
• Ricardo Romero, MD
• Abdul El Chafic, MD
• John Jerry Evans, MD

Advanced Endoscopy Practice Coodinator

• Raeann Totaro

For Referring Physicians

• Download the physician referral form
  • ​After completing, send back to our office​:

    • Fax: 504-842-0409

    • Email: advancedendscopy@ochsner.org

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Contact Information

• Email: advancedendoscopy@ochsner.org