Department / Division:
Medicine / Gastroenterology

Address:
DUMC 3189
Durham, NC 27710

Appointment Telephone:
919-684-6437

Office Telephone:
919-684-1817

Fax Telephone:
919-684-4695

• MD, Cayetano Heredia University School of Medicine, (Peru), 1993

• Internship/Transitional, Presbyterian University of Pennsylvania, 1993-1994
• Internal Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, 1994-1997

• Gastroenterology Fellowship, University of Massachusetts Medical Center
• Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship, Duke University Medical Center, 2000-2001

Clinical Interests:
Gastroenterology

Research Interests:
Endoscopy research- new endoscopic tools and techniques
GI cancers, particularly biliary and pancreas cancers

Representative Publications:
Gerke H, Byrne MF, Stiffler HL, Obando JV, Mitchell RM, Jowell PS, Branch MS, Baillie J. Outcome of endoscopic minor papillotomy in patients with symptomatic pancreas divisum. JOP. 2004 May;5(3):122-31. (2004) Abstract

Bonkovsky HL, Obando JV. Role of HFE gene mutations in liver diseases other than hereditary hemochromatosis. Curr Gastroenterol Rep. 1999 Feb-Mar;1(1):30-7. (1999) Abstract