Orlando Health Digestive Institute

Orlando Health Digestive Health Institute is a national and international destination for care, offering comprehensive and coordinated services to evaluate, diagnose and treat a wide range of conditions affecting the digestive tract and gastrointestinal organs, including the most complex cases. Led by renowned specialists in digestive health, the institute has distinguished itself worldwide in offering many diagnostic and treatment options available only at the most advanced centers, including artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that improve diagnosis, treatment and outcomes. The institute brings internationally recognized digestive disease care to a new state-of-the-art facility in downtown Orlando as well as several satellite sites conveniently located within the Orlando Health system. The institute’s scope of specialties and services include: 

• Advanced Endoscopy 

• General Gastroenterology 

• Hepatology 

• Inflammatory Bowel Disease 

• Motility 

• Pancreatology 

• Research and Physician Education 

 

A few examples of what sets us apart include: 

• A commitment to innovation, leading-edge research and global educational initiatives 

• Among select facilities offering peroral endoscopic myotomy, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) and NaviCam technology 

• One of very few programs in the world to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) with endoscopic ultrasound procedures to improve performance 

• Development of technology, together with industry partners, that integrates AI with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) to reduce radiation exposure to patients and providers 

• Collaboration with professional and industry partners to integrate AI in endoscopic technology to detect early cancer in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) 

• A team that includes authors of more than 2,000 peer-reviewed journals articles and the best-selling endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) textbook in the world, Endosonography 

 

Future plans for the institute include: 

• Developing an evidence-based protocol for the management of colon polyps utilizing leading-edge techniques and technologies 

• Establishing a liver transplant program 

• Becoming home to the most comprehensive motility unit in the southern United States 

• Creating subspecialty fellowships in hepatology, motility and IBD, in addition to gastrointestinal and advanced endoscopy fellowships 

• Hosting the largest institution-sponsored endoscopy/EUS congress in the United States