General Practitioners

• Medical Weight Loss
  As the name implies, the main characteristic of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is too much fat stored in liver cells. In the United States, this most common form of chronic liver disease affects an estimated 80 million to 100 million people. It is the leading cause of liver cirrhosis and eventually liver transplant. The first line of treatment is usually weight loss through healthy diet and exercise. This addresses the conditions that contribute to fatty liver disease. Ideally, a loss of 10% of body weight is desirable. FibroScan® is a new noninvasive scan available to diagnose fatty liver. This is an alternative to the more invasive liver biopsy test. With early diagnosis, it is preventable.
• Primary Care
  Our patients, their primary-care doctors and other referring physicians really appreciate both the capabilities and the convenience of our recognized, accredited onsite EndoSurgiCenter.
• Colonoscopy
  Currently, screening colonoscopy is approved by Medicare and covered 100% by many other insurance companies for patients over the age of 50.
• Constipation
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  If you suffer with uncomfortable symptoms such as abdominal pain, constipation and diarrhea, you may have irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS. Since we still don’t know what causes irritable bowel syndrome, our treatments focus on relieving symptoms so you can live a more normal life. Symptoms can vary greatly from person to person and include...
• Diarrhea

Gynecologists

• Endometriosis
• Pregnancy

Internists

• Internal Medicine
  Summa cum laude from the honors program at Rutgers College. He earned his medical degree from Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, where he was elected to the exclusive Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, a lifelong recognition of a physician’s excellence and dedication to the medical profession and the art of healing. Dr. Sivananthan completed his internal medicine internship and residency at the prestigious Weill Cornell-New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. He went on to complete his fellowship in gastroenterology at Lenox Hill Hospital, training under a world-renowned physician team, where he gained valuable clinical and patient experience. Dr. Sivananthan previously served as director of gastroenterology services at the Christ Hospital charity clinic while he was a gastroenterology attending physician with CarePoint Medical Group.
• Gastroenterology
  Dr. Chirla has done several research projects during her residency and fellowship in various topics in gastroenterology and hepatology, which she has presented at national meetings like Digestive Disease Week and American College of Gastroenterology. She has also authored several abstracts and articles published in peer-reviewed journals like
• Kidney Stones
• Colon Cancer
  Cancer is the second-leading cause of death. Colon cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer-related deaths, for both male and female. The good news is that colon cancer is preventable. If you are over 50, you need a colon cancer screening. Currently only 40% of adults are being screened.
• Endoscopy
  When you need a truly high-quality treatment center for your digestive problem, look no further than Center for Digestive Diseases, our board-certified gastroenterologists and our outpatient endoscopy facility, EndoSurgiCenter.
• Prostate Cancer
  According to the American Cancer Society, 150,000 Americans are diagnosed with colorectal cancer each year, and one-third of them will die from it. Colon cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death in men and women, killing more people than breast and prostate cancer combined.

Psychiatrists

• Mental Health
  PHI is any information about you, including demographic data that identifies you and your past, present or future physical or mental health condition, as well as related healthcare services. This Privacy Policy describes how we may use or disclose your PHI to provide treatment, payment or healthcare operations or other purposes that are permitted or required by law. This policy also describes your rights to access and control your PHI.
• Anxiety

Endocrinologist

• Diabetes Care

Radiologist

• Ultrasound
  Pancreatic cancer is one of the leading GI tract cancers. When it comes to pancreatic cancer, Center for Digestive Diseases provides comprehensive care and advanced solutions. If you diagnose it early, when there are no symptoms, then it is usually curable. The new modality, endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), helps diagnose the early stages. We use EUS technology to examine the pancreas, biopsy the pancreatic lesion (cancer), guide pseudocyst drainage, medicinal injections and painkilling treatments, especially in chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer. Common indications for EUS include...
• Computed Tomography
  Once diagnosed, patients can begin treatment immediately thanks to EUS, which has both diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities. EUS is an outpatient procedure that minimizes patient anxiety and helps patients avoid hospitalization for exploratory surgery or other invasive procedures. It also helps patients avoid the repeated exposure to radiation of CT scans for patients who have a family history of pancreatic cancer. If we find a tumor while it is still small, we can often resect it before the cancer spreads, thus providing a cure. For patients undergoing chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer, EUS can be used to guide injection of anti-tumor agents directly into the lesion.
• Chemotherapy

Surgeons

• Hemorrhoids Surgery
  People of all ages see us for abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhea, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), nausea, celiac disease, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, gastrointestinal bleeding (GI bleed) and more. We perform colonoscopy, endoscopy, hemorrhoids removal, ERCP for pancreas and bile duct gallstone removal.

Dermatologists

• Cyst
• Lesions