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Biographical Sketch
Madhusudhan Sanaka, MD, is a Staff Member in the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Cleveland Clinic’s main campus. His specialty interests include therapeutic endoscopy, pancreaticobiliary endoscopy, endoscopic ultrasonography and capsule endoscopy.
Dr. Sanaka earned his medical degree from Osmania Medical College, University of Health Sciences in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
He completed an internal medicine internship and residency at Metropolitan Hospital Center in New York. He also completed a gastroenterology fellowship at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio, as well as an advanced endoscopy fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, Penn.
Dr. Sanaka is board certified in gastroenterology and internal medicine and pediatrics.
He currently is conducting several research projects, including capsule endoscopy in acute upper GI bleeding, long-term efficacy of polypectomy techniques, and comparing single and double balloon small bowel enteroscopy, among several others. He has published a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals on various topics in gastroenterology and has presented multiple times on digestive disease and gastroenterology.
Specialty Interests
Advanced / Therapeutic Endoscopy with EUS and ERCP, Biliary disorders,Capsule Endoscopy, Small bowel enteroscopy, Pancreaticobiliary endoscopy, Therapeutic endoscopy,Enteral stenting and palliation of gastrointestinal malignancies, Difficult colonoscopy, Difficult polypectomy
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