Gastroenterology Leadership Team

Meet the Leadership Team of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

Administration

• Jorge Marrero, MD
  Chief, Division of Gastroenterology
• Nuzhat Ahmad, MD
  Vice Chief of Clinical Affairs
• Rebecca Wells, MD
  Vice Chief of Research
• Octavia Pickett-Blakely, MD
  Clinical Director, Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine (PCAM)
• James D. Lewis, MD, MSCE
  Clinical Director, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (PPMC)
• Frederick A. Nunes, MD
  Clinical Director, Pennsylvania Hospital (PAH)
• Robert Stein, MD
  Clinical Director, Penn Medicine at Radnor (PMR)
• Nabeel Khan, MD
  Director of GI, Philadelphia VA Medical Center
• Steven F. Solga, MD
  GI Fellowship Director
• David Jaffe, MD
  Director, GI Education

• Joseph Milano, MBA
  Director of Division Administration
  Division of GI and Hepatology

Endoscopy Leadership

• Gregory G. Ginsberg, MD
  Executive Director, Endoscopic Services
• Nuzhat A. Ahmad, MD
  Associate Medical Director of Endoscopy, HUP and PCAM
• Robert Stein, MD
  Medical Director of Endoscopy, PMR
• Frederick A. Nunes, MD
  Medical Director of Endoscopy, PAH
• Kashyap V. Panganamamula, MD
  Director of Therapeutic Endoscopy, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

Program Directors

• Nuzhat Ahmad, MD and
  Shivan Mehta, MD, MBA, MSHP
  Co-Directors, GI Quality (QUIDS) 
• Laurel Fisher, MD
  Director, Women in GI Committee
• Gary R. Lichtenstein, MD
  Director, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) Center
• James D. Lewis, MD, MSCE
  Associate Director, IBD Center
  Director, Gastroenterology/Hepatology Clinical Research Program
• Kristle Lynch, MD
  Director, GI Clinical Physiology Lab
• K. Rajender (Raj) Reddy, MD
  Director of Hepatology
  Medical Director of Liver Transplantation
  Director, Viral Hepatitis Center
• Octavia Pickett-Blakely, MD, MHS
  Director of the GI Nutrition, Celiac Sprue and Obesity Program (NCOP)
  

Clinical Staff

• Joseph Milano, MBA
  Director of Division Administration
  Division of GI and Hepatology
• Kerri McGuckin
  Administrator of Practice Operations
  Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
• Bernadette Muccie
  Practice Manager 
  Pennsylvania Hospital
• Bernadette Muccie
  Practice Manager 
  Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
• Susan Vogt
  Practice Manager 
  Penn Medicine Radnor
• Christina Brancato
  Practice Manager
  Penn Medicine Radnor

Research Staff

• Lee Taggart
  Manager, Administration & Finance, Division of Gastroenterology and The Center for Molecular Studies in Digestive and Liver Diseases
  954 Biomedical Research Building II/III
  215-573-4264
  215-898-0573 (fax)
• Tannaz Fakheri
  Grants Manager
  953 Biomedical Research Building II/III
  215-573-8557
  215-898-0573 (fax)
• Stephanie Kotloff
  Grants Manager, Division of Gastroenterology
  909 Biomedical Research Building II/III
  215-573-1883
  215-898-0573 (fax)
• Jessica Monkoski
  Program Coordinator, PennCHOP Microbiome Program
  908 Biomedical Research Building II/III
  215-573-4970
  215-898-0573 (fax)
• Kristi Taverno
  Administrative Assistant to Gary D. Wu, MD
  918 Biomedical Research Building II/III
  215-573-4117
  215-898-0573 (fax)