UF Health Digestive Disease Specialists

Gastroenterology

UF Health provides comprehensive medical care for the entire family. Board-certified physicians offer a full range of medical services for patients of all age groups. Our physicians can provide you with routine medical checkups, as well as the treatment of a wide variety of health problems.

Gastroenterologists and hepatologists specialize in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of digestive tract and liver diseases.

We provide comprehensive care for a number of conditions:

• Pancreatic function tests (secretin test, serum trypsin)
• Esophageal, gastric, small bowel and rectal motility studies
• Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, diagnostic and therapeutic
• Biliary manometry
• Liver biopsy
• Hyperalimentation
• Endoscopic ultrasonography
• Gastrointestinal bleeding
• Motility disturbances
• Endoscopy and colonoscopy
• Polypectomy
• Endoscopic removal of bile duct stones
• Biliary and pancreatic duct stent placement
• Esophageal stent placement

Liver Transplant

If you have end-stage liver disease, a liver transplant can bring hope. Thousands of patients have trusted their care to the experienced team at University of Florida Health Shands Transplant Center. Our center has over 20 years’ experience providing excellent care to patients with complex liver diseases.

Our team members from many specialties work together to provide you with the best care possible. While other centers may follow a liver transplant patient for several months after surgery, at UF Health, we follow our patients for life. Doing this leads to better outcomes and a higher rate of success with your transplanted organ.

The UF Health Difference

As a patient of UF Health Shands Transplant Center, you benefit from our three key features: experience, expertise, and excellence.

• Experience. We were one of the first liver transplant programs in the state of Florida — and we’ve continued to lead the field in transplant techniques. Our doctors – who are faculty in the University of Florida College of Medicine – are committed to focusing our knowledge and research on patients with advanced liver disease.
• Expertise. Our team has successfully transplanted more than 1,600 patients with end-stage liver disease. Our multidisciplinary approach to patient care draws on the combined expertise of our transplant physicians, transplant surgeons, nurse coordinators, transplant assistants, social workers, financial counselors, transplant pharmacists, immunogeneticists, anesthesiologists, intensivists and psychologists.
• Excellence. We take pride in our successful outcomes, and we are dedicated to transplanting livers as quickly as possible for those on our waiting list. After 12 months of being on our waiting list, 3.6 percent of patients died without a transplant, compared to the national average of 8.1 percent (Source: Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients).

Learn More About the Liver Transplant Program