Dr. Abraham Mathew awarded Graham H. Jeffries Professorship of Medicine

Abraham Mathew, MD, a professor of medicine in Penn State College of Medicine’s division of gastroenterology and hepatology, has been awarded the Graham H. Jeffries Professorship of Medicine.

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Dr. Mathew served as the college’s medical director of endoscopy from 2005 to 2011. This year, he performed the first per-oral esophageal myotomy for the treatment of achalasia in Pennsylvania.

Dr. Jeffries was the first chair of the department of internal medicine and chief of gastroenterology from 1969 to 1982.

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