Our Super Specialty: Corrective Endoscopy and Surgery
The Global Center offers unique expertise in the management of immediate, early and late complications and effects of prior surgery. Complications of surgery, scarring leading to adhesions or narrowing of the gastrointestinal tract, sinuses and fistulas, malalignment of the colon, rectum or pouch, tension or floppiness at an anastomosis, problems with orientation and twisting of structures can lead to problems with function that can affect health and quality of life. Our team has unique expertise in the understanding and management of these problems.
To make an appointment with the Global Center for Integrated Colorectal Surgery & IBD Interventional Endoscopy, please call us at (212) 342-1155.
Care at the Global Center
The Global Center for Integrated Colorectal Surgery provides a unique blend of personalized care that combines medical, nutritional, interventional endoscopic, procedural, and surgical treatments for colorectal, IBD, and pouch conditions - all under one roof.
The Global Center aims to serve as a 'last stop' for patients with colorectal conditions that could not be treated effectively elsewhere. From complicated and complex disease management to corrective procedures to address problems resulting from previous surgeries, the Center provides options for people who have been told they have none.
Who We Treat
Using a combination of interventional endoscopy and surgical expertise, our team is able to help correct and revise structural problems that affect function. An integrated multidisciplinary approach that focuses on restoration and ostomy avoidance even in the most challenging of circumstances.
Conditions We Treat
Some of the situations where our gastroenterologists and surgeons are able to help include:
- Pouch dysfunction due to structural problems related to the J pouch and K pouch (continent ileostomy)
- Revisional and corrective endoscopy
- Revisional and restorative surgery
- Complex enterocutaneous and intestinal fistula
- Anastomotic problems: leak, stricture, sinus, fistula
- Revisional and corrective endoscopy
- Revisional and restorative surgery
- Postoperative adhesions and narrowing of the gastrointestinal tract
- Radiation related strictures
- Anoperineal or rectovaginal fistulae, pouch perineal or pouchvaginal fistulae, pouch prolapse, pelvic floor dysfunction
Program Highlights
Unmatched Outcomes That Preserve Dignity and Quality of Life
The Global Center has excellent outcomes for patients with all forms of colorectal disease. Our patients consistently report a high quality of life post-surgery.
World-Class Minimally Invasive Options
We are the preeminent Center for endoscopy for pouch surveillance, corrective procedures for pouch dysfunction, strictures, fistulas, and pouchitis.
Advancing Care Through Research and Education
The Global Center works to improve the standard of care nationally and globally through our commitment to high-quality clinical research, global symposia, and the education and training of select fellows. The center’s leadership team has been recognized as top 10 worldwide in terms of impact and influence for the field of colorectal care.
Specialized Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nursing Support
Our highly trained nursing team has the wound and ostomy care expertise to help troubleshoot problems with intubation, pouch care, seepage, or incontinence.
Out-of-State Coordination of Care
For our out-of-state and international patients, the Global Center helps coordinate office appointments, testing, surgery, postoperative care, and follow-up to make travel and care easy for patients coming from far away. Information on accommodation in the NY/NJ area that allows easy access to the Global Center for consultations, procedures, and surgery is readily available.
Stories & Perspectives
Sara Musikoff shares her experience with severe inflammatory bowel disease, including the multiple operations that it took to repair her digestive tract. Now, Sara is out and about and living life to its fullest. Read the full story at nyp.org.
Our Team
Colorectal Surgeons
Wound Ostomy Continence Nurse
Colorectal NPs
Global Center Gastroenterologists
Gastroenterology & Pelvic Floor NPs & RNs
Gerthy Michel, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC
Physician Assistants (Colorectal/Gastroenterology)
Christian Munoz Pineda, PA Inpatient Colorectal Surgery/Gastroenterology
Danny Shlomo, PA Inpatient Colorectal Surgery/Gastroenterology
Nutrition
Sabrina Oliver, MS, RD | (347) 712-0894
Our Locations
Washington Heights
NYP/Columbia University Irving Medical Center (Main Campus)
Herbert Irving Pavilion
161 Fort Washington Avenue, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10032-3784
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Midtown West
51 West 51st Street, Suite #380
New York, NY 10019
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Upper East Side
12 East 86th Street, Suite #1
New York, NY 10028
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New Jersey
330 Grand St
Hoboken, NJ 07030
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Make an Appointment
To make an appointment with the Global Center for Integrated Colorectal Surgery & IBD Interventional Endoscopy, please call us at (212) 342-1155.
We accept a number of insurance plans, and our team can help confirm your coverage.
Resources & More
Stories & Perspectives
- State of the Union Conversation: Members of Columbia’s Global Center discuss colorectal surgery and care, improving surgical training, and how they approach treating conditions.
- Read more colorectal news and stories here