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We are pleased to invite patients to participate in basic science research through the Monterey Bay GI Research Institute. We are involved in the development of innovative treatments and cures for gastrointestinal diseases, and our research institute allows patients the opportunity to be a part of the remedy for these types of disorders. Patients who qualify for active research projects also have the chance to take advantage of new treatment options as soon as they are made available.
The Monterey Bay GI Research Institute is dedicated to ethically finding new and improved healing methods for gastrointestinal illness. We welcome your interest, participation and referrals. Dr. James A. Disario received his medical degree at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C. with extracurricular studies at Oxford University in the U.K. He did an Internal Medicine Internship at the Medical College of Virginia and Residency at Georgetown University Medical Center. He completed a Fellowship in Gastroenterology at the University of Arizona and had subsequent post-doctoral training in advanced therapeutic biliary and pancreatic endoscopy at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Dr. DiSario is Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. Dr. DiSario served as a faculty member at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center for 16 years where he practiced gastroenterology, advanced therapeutic endoscopy, and was an accomplished researcher and teacher. He achieved the rank of Professor of Medicine with tenure and maintains an appointment as Adjunct Professor. He has authored numerous publications in medical journals and chapters in medical textbooks, and serves as a reviewer and editor for these publications. Dr. DiSario has maintained an accomplished clinical and translational research career spanning 20 years. He has been awarded numerous research grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute (NCI), American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, American College of Gastroenterology, and the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. He has developed and served as the principal investigator on investigator-initiated NCI-sponsored, pivotal pharmaceutical studies and he has lectured at the most prestigious medical meetings both and internationally and has presented original research domestically and globally. Dr. DiSario joined the Monterey Bay GI Consultants Medical Group in 2006 and is a partner in practice at peak career. He currently serves as the Director of the Gastrointestinal Endoscopy Unit at the Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula and is an investigator and research consultant for the Monterey Bay GI Research Institute. Dr. Dan G. Luba is the managing partner of the Monterey Bay GI Consultants Medical Group, Inc., Medical Director of the Monterey Bay Endoscopy Center, Inc., and President of the Monterey Bay GI Research Institute, Inc. He attended Boston University Medical School, where he completed a six-year combined undergraduate and medical school program and received the Henry J. Bakst Award in Community Medicine. He completed his Internship, Residency, and Chief Residency in Internal Medicine at Boston VA Medical Center and subsequently moved to California to do a fellowship in Gastroenterology at Stanford University Medical Center. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. Dr. Lloyd R. Garren completed his medical training and practiced medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. He later moved to Monterey, where he joined the Monterey Bay GI Consultants Medical Group and has been practicing medicine since 1996. Dr. Garren very recently completed his National Institute’s of Health Good Clinical Practice training with emphasis on the protection of human participants in clinical research, and has begun serving as an investigator on active pharmaceutical projects in the treatment of gastrointestinal disease through the Monterey Bay GI Research Institute. Dr. Richard W. Hell upon completing medical school at Saint Louis University, completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center/U.C.L.A. He did his Sub-specialty Fellowship in Gastroenterology at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. Dr. Hell received the Paul Rubenstein, M.D. Prize for Excellence in Resident Research while at U.C.L.A. and the Cedars-Sinai Standing Ovation for Quality Service Award, while involved with studies in various gastrointestinal conditions such as Ascites, Barrett’s esophagus, Reflux disease, colon polyps and liver research. He has authored published, scientific abstracts on reflux provoking activities and acid exposure in correlation to Barrett’s Esophagus length. He certified in the National Institute’s of Health Protection of Human Research Participant training in February of 2009 and has served as an investigator on several gastrointestinal research projects through the Monterey Bay GI Research Institute since its inception. Dr. Kathryn A. Swanson completed her medical school education with an M.D. from the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. She went on to complete an Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and following that, completed a 3-year Academic Gastroenterology and Therapeutic Endoscopy Fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center. Dr. Swanson completed her National Institutes of Health Good Clinical Practice training in November of 2008 and joined the Monterey Bay GI Research Institute as a sub-investigator where she has served on several pharmaceutical research projects to help manage or cure gastrointestinal disease. Ms. Maydeen M. Ogara, A.S., CCRP earned her degree in general sciences in 1998, while living in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2007, she was recruited by the physicians of the Monterey Bay GI Consultants, Medical Group to join the practice and start up and head a clinical research program servicing the greater Monterey Bay area, with special emphasis on gastrointestinal disease. She is responsible for raising grant money to fund GI studies, budget and contract negotiations, the ethical conduct of research, and the integrity of the collected data. Ms. Ogara is a nationally certified member of the Society of Clinical Research Associates (SOCRA) and joins the practice with over a decade of experience in federal National Institutes of Health (NIH), GI organization and industry sponsored clinical research and protocol management. CURRENT PROTOCOLS We are involved in the development of innovative treatments and cures for gastrointestinal diseases, and our research institute allows patients the opportunity to be a part of the remedy for these types of disorders. Patients who qualify for active research projects also have the chance to take advantage of new treatment options as soon as they are made available. The Monterey Bay GI Research Institute is dedicated to ethically finding new and improved healing methods for gastrointestinal illness. We welcome your interest, participation and referrals. All research projects that are currently active here can be accessed on the web at www.clinicaltrials.gov
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