GI & Endoscopy

Colorectal surgeon William Cirocco, MD, joined Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center in Gilbert, Ariz.

Pittsburgh-based providers Allegheny Health Network and Highmark Health opened AHN Center for Advanced Endoscopy at Allegheny General Hospital.

Peter Bernheim, MD, and Scott Gioe, MD, joined Gulfport, Miss.-based Memorial Physician Clinic, the Mississippi Business Journal reports.

Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic and Exact Sciences will begin a seven-year study to evaluate how Cologuard affects colorectal cancer screening, incidence and mortality rates.

Charleston, S.C.-based Palmetto Digestive Health added Lori Robbins, MD, to its staff, The Post and Courier reports.

Here are 11 mergers and acquisitions that occurred this year in the gastroenterology space:

Jersey City (N.J.) Medical Center reduced the administrative work around getting a colonoscopy in its ASC, HudsonReporter.com reports.

Allan W. Wolkoff, MD, is the chief of the division of hepatology at the Albert EInstein College of Medicine in New York City.

Two gastroenterology physicians featured in the news this week:

Northwest Specialty Hospital, a physician-owned facility in Post Falls, Idaho, has opened a new endoscopy center.