Pankaj Jay Pasricha

Director, Division of Gastroenterology, Stanford University School of Medicine, United States of America

Dr. Pankaj Jay Pasricha

Academic positions:
- Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- Bassel and Frances Blanton Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine
- Professor of Anatomy & Neurosciences and Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas Medical Branch

Any industry positions (last five years):
Consultant to a number of companies

Research interests:
Dr Pasricha's laboratory is interested in molecular mechanisms of visceral pain and restoration of enteric neural function with novel strategies including neural stem cell transplants. His clinical interests include GI motility disorders and abdominal pain as well as the development of novel endoscopic procedures and devices.

Any other information:
Dr Pasricha currently serves as chair of the NIH Special Emphasis Panel on Endoscopic Clinical Research in Pancreatic and Biliary Diseases.

He has authored more than a 100 manuscripts and book chapters including contributions to Cecil Textbook of Medicine, Yamada Textbook of Gastroenterology and Goodman and Gilman Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics.

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Gastroenterology & Hepatology > Endoscopy (since 16 November 2005)

Pankaj Jay Pasricha is a Section Head for Endoscopy, part of the GASTROENTEROLOGY & HEPATOLOGY Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

Links

http://www.utmb.edu/gastroenterology/internet/FacultyListResults.cfm?UserID=jpasrich&Back=Yes

All recent recommendations

• 6.5
  Endoscopic versus surgical drainage of the pancreatic duct in chronic pancreatitis.
  Recommended by Mario Cottone, Chris Forsmark, Jay Pasricha with Dr Rajasekhara Mummadi
  
• 6.0
  Rates of new or missed colorectal cancers after colonoscopy and their risk factors: a population-based analysis.
  Recommended by Jay Pasricha with Dr Rajasekhara Mummadi, MD
  
• 3.0
  Tapered colonoscope performs better than the pediatric colonoscope in female patients: a direct comparison through tandem colonoscopy.
  Recommended by Jay Pasricha with Dr Rajasekhara R. Mummadi, MD
  
• 3.0
  Endoscopic interventions in the small bowel using double balloon enteroscopy: feasibility and limitations.
  Recommended by Jay Pasricha
  
• 6.4
  Omeprazole before endoscopy in patients with gastrointestinal bleeding.
  Recommended by Ian Beales, Jay Pasricha
  
• 3.0
  What is the learning curve associated with double-balloon enteroscopy? Technical details and early experience in 6 U.S. tertiary care centers.
  Recommended by Jay Pasricha
  
• 3.0
  The development and validation of an endoscopic grading system for Barrett's esophagus: the Prague C & M criteria.
  Recommended by Jay Pasricha
  
• 3.0
  Video capsule endoscopy compared with standard endoscopy for the evaluation of small-bowel polyps in persons with familial adenomatous polyposis (with video).
  Recommended by Jay Pasricha
  
• 3.0
  Risk stratification for colon neoplasia: screening strategies using colonoscopy and computerized tomographic colonography.
  Recommended by Jay Pasricha
  
• 3.0
  Endoscopic management of foreign bodies in the upper-GI tract: experience with 1088 cases in China.
  Recommended by Jay Pasricha
  
• 3.0
  Colorectal cancers found after a complete colonoscopy.
  Recommended by Jay Pasricha