GI & Endoscopy

Memorial Hermann Northeast Hospital in Humble, Texas, has selected gastroenterologist Howard Hamat, MD, to serve as its chief of staff, according to an Atascocita Observer report.

Somerset Medical Center in Somerville, N.J.  announced the addition of Cory Vergilio, MD, board certified gastroenterologist, to its board of trustees.

Eamonn M. M. Quigley, MD, past president of the American College of Gastroenterology and the World Gastroenterology Organization, has joined the faculty at The Methodist Hospital in Houston as head of its gastroenterology division.

Northwest Community Healthcare's Medical Group announced the addition of gastroenterologist Ami Shah Behara, MD, to its network of physicians.

Covenant Surgical Partners has announced partnerships with five new surgery centers.

Here are seven GI or endoscopy-driven ambulatory surgery center transactions announced in the last 30 days.

John I. Allen, MD, MBA, national quality advisor for Minnesota Gastroenterology in St. Paul, Minn., will assume the position of clinical chief of gastroenterology and hepatology at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., on April 1.

Waldorf Endoscopy Center and the GI Associates of Maryland have announced the center is relocating to a new facility on Old Washington Road.

Robert "Chip" Williams, MD, will join the Lumberton Children's Clinic as a pediatric gastroenterologist in mid-February, according to a Robesonian report.

Ann Marie Stephenson, MD, has started working as a gastroenterologist at Lourdes Medical Center in Pasco, Wash., according to a Burlington County Times report.