Dr. Parkman has a professional interest in motility disorders of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine and colon. He also treats conditions such as gastroesophageal reflux disease, achalasia, non-cardiac chest pain, esophageal spasm, gastroparesis, functional dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome and intestinal pseudo-obstruction.
Dr. Parkman has a wide-array of research interests including the use of multichannel electrogastrography to assess gastric myoelectrical activity to detect gastric motor function in patients with dyspeptic symptoms as well as development of a noninvasive test to measure simultaneously both gastric emptying and gastric volume after ingestion of a solid meal under physiologic conditions. His work has been published in numerous prestigious publications, such as Gastroenterology, Neurogastroenterology & Motility and Gastroenterology Clinics of North America.
Dr. Parkman earned his medical degree at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and he completed his residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He completed a GI fellowship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and a GI research fellowship in Mayo Clinic Medical School in Rochester, Minn.
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