James Church, MD is a colorectal surgeon who cares for all aspects of colorectal disease, with a particular focus on hereditary colorectal cancers and polyposis. Born and raised in New Zealand, Dr. Church did his medical school, postgraduate research and general surgical training in Auckland before training in colorectal surgery at the Cleveland Clinic and eventually joining the faculty there. Over the 34 years that followed, he played an instrumental role in developing what was widely considered the finest Department of Colorectal Surgery in the world.
Dr. Church has been co-Investigator of the Collaborative Colorectal Cancer Family Registry, funded by a research grant from the National Cancer Institute. In addition, he has served as the Chairman of the Leeds Castle Polyposis Group and the International Collaborative Group on Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer and President of the Collaborative Group of the Americas on Inherited Colorectal Cancer. These international …societies are dedicated to the care of patients with inherited colorectal cancer and research into their disease.
Dr. Church’s other areas of interests include colonoscopy, functional colorectal and anal problems including constipation and incontinence, perianal and perineal infections and inflammatory bowel disease. As head of the Section of Endoscopy at Cleveland Clinic, he helped develop several advances in the art of colonoscopy for the benefit of patients. He is also deeply commitment to education and is currently a Fellow of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, American College of Surgeons, Costa Rican Society of Surgery, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, American College of Gastroenterology, American Surgical Association and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow.
Dr. James M. Church, MD
Dr. James M. Church, MD
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- Newyork Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Medical School
- 1974
UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND
CUIMC/Herbert Irving Pavilion
161 Fort Washington Ave # 8
New York
NY
10032
USA
(844) 360-8444
- Colorectal Surgery
- Colonoscopy
- Hemorrhoid Procedures
- Sigmoidoscopy
- Accepts Medicare
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- Rectal
- Abdomen
- Small Intestines
- or Colon Cancer
- Anal or Rectal Abscess
- Benign Polyps of the Colon
- Anal Fissure
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