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Panama City, Florida Gastroenterology: Digestive Diseases Center Welcomes Dr. Cesar Chan, Jr.

Digestive Diseases Center • Nov 01, 2023

Digestive Diseases Center is excited to announce that Dr. Cesar Chan, Jr. has joined the staff of gastroenterologists at their Panama City facility. Dr. Chan is a Board gastroenterologist as well as a member of the American College of Gastroenterology, and the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. He received his Bachelor of Arts at Ateneo de Manila University before completing his medical degree from Cebu Doctors’ University in the Philippines. He completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Lincoln Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, where he was Chief Resident. 

 

Dr. Chan completed his fellowship at New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York, after which he spent three years in academic medicine at his alma mater, Lincoln Medical Center in New York, where he was Chief of Gastroenterology. He was a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University before going into private practice in Wisconsin.


About Digestive Diseases Center

Digestive Diseases Center is a single–specialty gastroenterology and hepatology (liver disease) practice serving the Florida Panhandle. Our practice consists of six board-certified gastroenterologists. We have four office locations and a freestanding endoscopy center, Northwest Florida Gastroenterology Center, to serve our patients. Our board-certified physicians specialize in treating gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel disease (IBS), Barrett’s Esophagus and disease of the liver and pancreas. Additionally, our physicians perform colonoscopies and endoscopies for screening and diagnostic purposes in the area’s only surgery center specializing solely in gastrointestinal procedures.

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