Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship - BILH Lahey Hospital and Medical Center

Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
41 Mall Road
Burlington, Massachusetts 01805
(781) 744-9315 (V)
Website


1 Position Available

Program Type: Both ERCP & EUS

Authorized Administrative Official: Deborah Troisi (email)

Program Director: Mena Bakhit (email)

Duration: 1 Year

Inclusive Dates of the Program: 7/1/2026 to 6/30/2027

Program Website: www.lahey.org/research-education/education/fellowships/advanced-endoscopy

Accepts applicants from outside of North America? No

Accepts applicants with J1 visas? Yes

Accepts applicants with H1B visas? Yes

Accepts applicants with E3 visas? Yes

Supervised Procedures

Procedure		 Faculty Involved in AEF Training Total Annual Volume Annual Volume with hands-on AEF Involvement
ERCP 3 900 450
Diagnostic EUS 3 800 400

Unsupervised Trainee Activities

Procedure		 Value
General GI procedures (per year) 200
Inpatient general GI service (weeks/year) 0
Inpatient advanced endoscopy service (weeks/year) 0
Ambulatory clinics (per year) 0
Committed time for research (days/month) 0

Requirements for Application

  1. Standard ASGE Application Packet
    • ASGE Application
    • Post-Undergraduate Education
    • USMLE Scores
    • Certification of Completion of Residency
      1. Prior to appointment in the advanced endoscopy fellowship, fellows should have completed a three-year ACGME-accredited gastroenterology fellowship
      2. Fellows from non-ACGME-accredited programs must have completed at least three years of gastroenterology education prior to starting the fellowship
    • Personal Statement
    • Curriculum Vitae
    • 3 Letters of Reference

Additional Information about Program

One-year Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship at Beth Israel Lahey Health - Lahey Hospital and Medical Center


Lahey Hospital and Medical Center offers a one-year advanced endoscopy fellowship in ERCP and EUS with exposure to other advanced endoscopic related procedures. Applicants considered must be currently enrolled in or have completed an accredited general gastroenterology fellowship.


Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, located in Burlington, MA, is a nonprofit teaching hospital of UMass Chan-Lahey Regional Medical Campus. The Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology consists of approximately 20 faculty members. Our program is situated 20 miles northwest of Boston and is one of the busiest in New England. Our state-of-the-art endoscopy unit contains two large fluoroscopy rooms.


Our practice has three advanced endoscopy physicians and one physician assistant. We perform around 2000 advanced endoscopic procedures yearly, including approximately 900 ERCPs and 800 EUSs.


Lahey Hospital and Medical Center is also a large liver transplant institution performing greater than 100 liver transplants per year.


Responsibilities:

The advanced endoscopic training program provides trainees with critical, supervised instruction to ensure quality care for patients. Although the Lahey Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship is a procedural focused fellowship, endoscopic decision making, technical proficiency, and patient management are equally important, and these skills will be emphasized repeatedly during the training period. The advanced endoscopy fellow will spend the majority of their time performing advanced procedures under the direct supervision of the supervising physician. A half day per week will be spent performing general GI procedures as an attending physician depending on visa status. The advanced endoscopy fellow will work with the general gastroenterology fellows to arrange inpatient procedures and facilitate procedures from our busy referral practice. There is no inpatient pancreaticobiliary service. In addition to clinical responsibilities, participation in clinical research is expected.



Conferences:

1) Bi-monthly advanced endoscopy conference;

2) Weekly tumor board;

3) Monthly GI Morbidity and Mortality Conference;

4) Weekly GI Journal Club conference;

5) Weekly GI Core Curriculum conference.



The goal of the Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship is to teach cognitive and technical aspects of advanced endoscopy which includes:

1) Understanding disease processes, presentation and management;

2) Interpretation of radiographic data;

3) Appropriate recommendation of advanced endoscopic procedures based on findings from consultations and in consideration of specific indications, contraindications, and diagnostic/ therapeutic alternatives

4) Understanding the indications and contraindications for procedures;

5) Performance of specific procedures safely, completely, and expeditiously;

6) Pre- and post-procedure care of patients;

7) Recognition and management of complications;

8) Appropriate documentation and reporting;

9) Appropriate communication with the patient and the multidisciplinary team;

10) Endoscopic research, presentation and publication.


The advanced endoscopy fellow is expected to perform all aspects of advanced diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy techniques including:

1) Diagnostic endoscopic ultrasound

2) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography: management of biliary stones and strictures, papillectomy, complex ERCPs, ERCP in post- surgical anatomy, ductoscopy (Spyglass), management of pancreatic duct stones

3) Management of dysplastic Barrett’s esophagus and early esophageal cancer with training in endoscopic mucosal
resection, radiofrequency ablation, and cryotherapy

4) Endoluminal stenting: esophagus, gastroduodenal, colonic

5) Management of GI strictures: use of stents, dilating balloons, cryotherapy and bougies

6) Endoscopic mucosal resection: esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon

7) Small bowel enteroscopy (both antegrade and retrograde): single balloon enteroscopy

8) Endoscopy in post-surgical anatomy: esophagectomy, gastrectomy, Whipple resections, gastric bypass, liver
transplant, intestinal resections

9) Therapeutic endoscopic ultrasound: celiac plexus blockade and neurolysis, pancreatic pseudocyst drainage and
necrosectomy, EUS-guided pancreaticobiliary drainage, fiducial marker placement, FNA/FNB, EUS-guided
coiling and gluing of gastric varices


Advanced Endoscopy Team



Mena Bakhit, M.D.
Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship Program Director

Mena Bakhit, M.D. trained as a gastroenterology fellow at Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital and did his advanced endoscopic fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Dr. Bakhit’s interests include interventional EUS, complex ERCPs, large upper and lower endoscopic mucosal resections.



Haider Rahman, M.D. trained as a gastroenterology fellow at Albany Medical Center and did his advanced endoscopic fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University. Dr. Rahman’s interests include interventional EUS, complex ERCPs, large upper and lower endoscopic mucosal resections, balloon enteroscopy, management of Barrett's esophagus.


Khaldoon Khirfan, M.D. trained as a gastroenterology fellow at University of New Mexico and did his advanced endoscopy fellowship at the University of California Irvine. Interests include third space (ESD/POEM/Z-POEM), endohepatology and anti-reflux procedures.


Lindsey Sullivan, P.A. trained at Gastroenterology Associates of Northern Virginia and Cambridge Health Alliance. She joined Lahey in 2020 with many years of GI experience.



How to Apply:

Applicants should apply through the ASGE Advanced Endoscopy Match website which includes detailed information in regard to the match, application and deadlines.

If you have any specific questions about our program, please contact Mena Bakhit M.D.at [email protected].







Please Note: All data in this program description is entered on a voluntary basis