DannyIssaMD

Summary

• Dr. Danny Issa is an interventional gastroenterologist and assistant clinical professor of medicine at UCLA. His clinical practice focuses on using minimally-invasive approaches to diagnose and treat digestive diseases such as pancreas and bile ducts disorders, esophagus and stomach conditions, gastroparesis, colon polyps and early cancer lesions. He has a particular interest in bariatric endoscopy and obesity medicine and is co-leading the endoscopic bariatric program at UCLA. He has obtained additional training at Weill Cornell, New York, for cutting-edge endoscopic weight loss procedures such as endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG), gastric revision following bypass surgery, transoral outlet reduction (TORe), and gastric balloon placement. Gastrointestinal procedures he performs also include colonoscopy, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), therapeutic endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), tumor ablation, endoluminal stenting, mucosal resection (EMR), endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) and peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM).
  
  
  After earning his medical degree from the University of Damascus, he completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Northwestern University, Chicago, and a residency in internal medicine at Cleveland Clinic - Fairview Hospital. He then completed a fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology at Virginia Commonwealth University and an advanced endoscopy fellowship at Weill Cornell Medical College/New York-Presbyterian Hospital, where he had extensive training on numerous innovative endoscopic procedures. He also speaks multiple languages, including Arabic and French.
  
  Dr. Issa is Board-certified in gastroenterology and internal medicine. He is an active member of the Public Relations Committee of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG), and an active member of the Congressional Advocacy Program of the American Gastroenterology Association (AGA), in addition to being a member of the ASGE and ACP.

https://www.uclahealth.org/danny-issa
Dr. Issa is a Health Sciences Clinical Instructor of Medicine at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.