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Shaheen, MD, MPH<IMG alt="" hspace=6 src="images/shaheen_12.jpg" align=right vspace=6 border=0></h2> <br /> <p>Nicholas Shaheen is Director for the Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing at the University of North Carolina and Associate Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and School of Public Health.</p> <br /> <p>Dr. Shaheen attended college at Harvard University, and earned his medical degree at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, where he fulfilled his internship and residency requirements. He completed his clinical fellowship training at the University of North Carolina (UNC), where he also earned his masters degree at the School of Public Health. Next, he completed a National Institutes of Health fellowship in Epidemiology. For the last 8 years, he has been a faculty member at UNC.</p><br /> <p>His research interest is in the epidemiology and management of esophageal diseases. He is the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters related to reflux disease, motility disorders, Barrett s esophagus, and esophageal cancer. He is currently on the editorial board of Gastroenterology and Clinical Gastroenterology & Hepatology, and is a reviewer for numerous journals. Dr. Shaheen receives research funding from the National Institutes of Health and multiple private foundations and corporations to pursue clinical and translational research in esophageal diseases. Dr. Shaheen is a member of several professional societies, including the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, the American Medical Society, and the North Carolina Medical Society. He is a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Gastroenterological Association and the American College of Physicians. He is the President of the North Carolina Society of Gastroenterology.</p> <br /><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=Shaheen+N%5BAuthor%5D" class="blueLink" target="_blank"><img alt="book" src="images/book077.gif" />&nbsp;Publications</a> <br /><br /><HR noshade size="1" width="75%" align="center"><br /><br /> <h2>Douglas R. Morgan, MD, MPH<IMG alt="" hspace=6 src="images/morgan_12.jpg" align=right vspace=6 border=0></h2> <br /> <p>Douglas Morgan attended Dartmouth College and received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University. He completed his postgraduate training in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at the University of California, San Francisco. He also earned a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Morgan has been a UNC faculty member for six years and is a member of the UNC Center for Esophageal Diseases, with a focus on gastric disorders, including functional dyspepsia and H. pylori. He also directs the Capsule Endoscopy program at UNC. </p> <br /> <p>Dr. Morgan is Director of the nascent Center for Latino Digestive Health at UNC, with clinical and research initiatives in Central America and North Carolina. He has extensive experience in Latin America and with the Latino population. He is a former Peace Corps engineer, having designed rural electrification systems in Honduras. In medical school, he served as US Public Health Service COSTEP volunteer at Migrant Farm worker clinics in the Rio Grande Valley. His research interests include the epidemiology of FGIDs in the Latino population, gastric cancer epidemiology, and Latino digestive health. Active functional GI research protocols include a large population-based FGID epidemiology collaboration with the University of Nicaragua, with funding from the Rome Committees. He also directs a gastric cancer epidemiology initiative in Honduras, with a focus on host genetic and dietary factors. </p><br /> <p>Dr. Morgan receives research funding from the NIH through a Cancer Prevention Career Development Award, as well as from foundations and industry. He was a recipient of the American College of Gastroenterology s Governor s Award for Excellence in Clinical Research in October 2004 and has recently received funding for the development of a multidisciplinary Hispanic clinic (2007). His research team includes Paris Heidt (Program Manager) and their collaborating research staff based in Latin America. </p> <br /><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=Morgan+DR%5BAuthor%5D" class="blueLink" target="_blank"><img alt="book" src="images/book077.gif" />&nbsp;Publications</a> <br /><br /><HR noshade size="1" width="75%" align="center"><br /><br /> <h2>Ryan D. Madanick, MD<IMG alt="" hspace=6 src="images/madanick_12.jpg" align=right vspace=6 border=0></h2> <br /> <p>Ryan Madanick is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UNC School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and works in the Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing. Dr. Madanick attended the University of Miami in the Honors Program in Medicine, where he earned both his undergraduate and medical degrees. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was awarded Intern of the Year and Outstanding Teaching Resident. He returned to Miami for his subspecialty fellowship in gastroenterology at Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami Medical Center. After completing his fellowship, he stayed on the faculty at the University of Miami until he moved to UNC in November 2006. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. His main clinical and research interests include refractory gastroesophageal reflux disease, extraesophageal reflux disease, Barrett s esophagus, and esophageal motility disorders, with a prime focus on diagnosis and treatment strategies of patients with GERD who do not respond to therapy. </p> <br /><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=Madanick+R%5BAuthor%5D" class="blueLink" target="_blank"><img alt="book" src="images/book077.gif" />&nbsp;Publications</a> <br /><br /><HR noshade size="1" width="75%" align="center"><br /><br /> <h2>Roy C. Orlando, MD<IMG alt="" hspace=6 src="images/orlando_12.jpg" align=right vspace=6 border=0></h2> <br /> <p>Roy Orlando is UNC Professor of Medicine & Adjunct Professor of Cell and Molecular Physiology. He attended Georgetown University Medical School in Washington, D.C., was elected to AOA and graduated Cum Laude with an M.D. degree. He did his GI Fellowship at UNC and, after 2 years of military service, joined the UNC faculty. He rose to the rank of Professor of Medicine and left UNC in 1992 to assume the position of Chief of Gastroenterology & Hepatology at Tulane University in New Orleans. During his tenure at Tulane, he was also Director of the Center for Esophageal & Swallowing Disorders. In July 2007, Dr. Orlando, an internationally-recognized expert in esophageal disease, returned to UNC as full time faculty member. He is also an outstanding clinician, having been listed continuously among the  Best Doctors In America: Southeast Region from 1996 -2007.</p> <br /><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=Orlando+RC%5BAuthor%5D" class="blueLink" target="_blank"><img alt="book" src="images/book077.gif" />&nbsp;Publications</a> <br /><br /><br /><br /><HR noshade size="1" width="75%" align="center"><br /><br /> <h2>Evan S. Dellon, MD, MPH<IMG alt="" hspace=6 src="images/dellon_12.jpg" align=right vspace=6 border=0></h2> <br /> <p>Evan S. Dellon is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the UNC School of Medicine. Dr. Dellon received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He completed internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, and then worked there for two years as a Hospitalist and Assistant in Medicine, as well as an Instructor at the Harvard Medical School. He subsequently moved to Chapel Hill and completed both a clinical and a research fellowship in Gastroenterology at UNC, during which he received a master s degree in Epidemiology from the UNC School of Public Health. He clinical training has also included experience with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and endoscopic ultrasound. Dr. Dellon has just joined the Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing. Dr. Dellon s main research interest is in the epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of eosinophilic esophagitis. He also has research interests in advanced endoscopic techniques. He is a member of several professional societies, including the American Gastroenterological Association, the American College of Gastroenterology, the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, and the North Carolina Society of Gastroenterology. Dr. Dellon receives research funding from an American College of Gastroenterology Junior Faculty Development Award as well as an intramural NIH KL2 Career Development Award. </p> <br /><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=Dellon+ES%5BAuthor%5D" class="blueLink" target="_blank"><img alt="book" src="images/book077.gif" />&nbsp;Publications</a> <br /><br /><br /><br /><HR noshade size="1" width="75%" align="center"><br /><br /> <div class="b2">Clinic Staff</div> <br /><br /> <h2>Melissa Spacek, BSN, CGRN<IMG alt="" hspace=6 src="images/spacek_12.jpg" align=right vspace=6 border=0></h2> <br /> <p>Melissa Spacek received her BSN at Gannon University in Erie, PA. Prior to coming to Chapel Hill, she worked in Neurology at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. She joined the UNC team in March of 1996. Melissa initially worked as a staff nurse in general medicine when coming to UNC. She proceeded to specializing in Gastroenterology and Hepatology in 1997, where she joined the endoscopy staff, initially as a procedural nurse and then moving to management of UNC s Endoscopy department. She received her certification in Gastroenterology in 2001. Melissa joined UNC s Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing in April of 2004. She is involved in both research and clinical, specializing in esophageal disorders. She is presently enrolled in UNC s Adult Nurse Practitioner Program. </p> <br /><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=Spacek+MB%5BAuthor%5D" class="blueLink" target="_blank"><img alt="book" src="images/book077.gif" />&nbsp;Publications</a> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><HR noshade size="1" width="75%" align="center"><br /><br /> <h2>Nicole Cheng, PA-C MMSc <IMG alt="" hspace=6 src="images/cheng_12.jpg" align=right vspace=6 border=0></h2> <br /> <p>Nicole Cheng is a certified Physician Assistant for the Centers for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing (CEDAS) within the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Nicole graduated from Emory University s Physician Assistant program in December 2006. After graduating from Emory, she relocated to Chapel Hill where she began working with CEDAS. Nicole works directly with Drs. Shaheen, Madanick and Morgan caring for patients with a variety of esophageal and swallowing disorders, including Barrett s esophagus, eosinophilic esophagitis, and gastroesophageal reflux disease. Nicole sees patients both at UNC Memorial Hospital and at our satellite endoscopy center at Meadowmont in Chapel Hill. </p> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><HR noshade size="1" width="75%" align="center"><br /><br /> <div class="b2">Research Staff</div> <br /><br /> <h2>Xiaoxin (Luke) Chen, MD, PhD<IMG alt="" hspace=6 src="images/chenl_12.jpg" align=right vspace=6 border=0></h2> <br /> <p>Xiaoxin (Luke) Chen is a member of the Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing (CEDAS) at the University of North Carolina, and an Associate Professor of Biology at the Cancer Research Program, Julius L. Chambers Biomedical/Biotechnology Research Institute, North Carolina Central University (NCCU).</p><br /> <p>Dr. Chen earned his medical degree at the Peking University Health Science Center (formerly Beijing Medical University), where he fulfilled his internship and continued as a resident (Orthopedic Surgery) for three years. He then went to Rutgers University, where he earned his PhD degree (Biochemistry) at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy. Next, he became a faculty member of the Susan Lehman Cullman Laboratory of Medicine, Department of Chemical Biology, Rutgers University. In 2005, he became a faculty member at NCCU, and joined CEDAS.</p><br /> <div>His research interest is molecular mechanism and prevention of Barrett's esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma. His lab also works on how inflammation may contribute to oral cancer and prostate cancer. He has authored numerous journal articles and book chapters related to oral and esophageal diseases. He is currently a reviewer for numerous journals. Dr. Chen receives research funding from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, private foundations and corporations to pursue basic and translational research in Barrett's esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma. Dr. Chen is a member of several professional societies, including the American Association for Cancer Research. </div> <br /><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=DetailsSearch&Term=Chen,+Xiaoxin%5BFull+Author+Name%5D" class="blueLink" target="_blank"><img alt="book" src="images/book077.gif" />&nbsp;Publications</a> <br /><br /><HR noshade size="1" width="75%" align="center"><br /><br /> <h2>Paris Heidt-Davis</h2> <br /> <p>Paris Heidt-Davis is a Project Director for CEDAS and a Program Manager for the Center for Latino Digestive Health. She has worked in clinical research for over 10 years and began her research training in 1993 at the Center for Pediatric Research at the Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, while simultaneously earning her undergraduate degree. Paris came to UNC in 2000, where she coordinated clinical trials for the Hepatology Program, ultimately joining CEDAS in 2004. Her research interests include health disparities in the Hispanic population, International Human Subjects, Protections, and Clinical Trials Project Management.</p> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><HR noshade size="1" width="75%" align="center"><br /><br /> <h2>Stephanie D. Bright<IMG alt="" hspace=6 src="images/bright_12.jpg" align=right vspace=6 border=0></h2> <br /> <p>Stephanie Bright is a Research Specialist for the Center for Esophageal Diseases & Swallowing. She is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill with a BS Degree in Psychology and Biology. She began coordinating research in 2004 for a breast cancer survivor project in UNC's psychology department. She returned to UNC in 2006 after coordinating trials for Duke's Center for Nicotine and Smoking Cessation Research. Her research interests include cancer epidemiology, community oriented health education, and healthy behavior promotion</p> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><HR noshade size="1" width="75%" align="center"><br /><br /> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>