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Weesner, Robert MD
Division: Digestive Diseases
Title: Associate Professor
Education: MD - Indiana University Medical School, 1972
Training: - Cincinnati General Hospital, Internal Medicine, 1972-1973 - Cincinnati General Hospital, Resident, Internal Medicine, 1973-1975 - U.S. Army, Internal Medicine, 1975-1977 - Cincinnati General Hospital, Fellow, Gastroenterology, 1977-1979
Clinical Interests: colon cancer screening, GI bleeding, esophageal diseases, anal disease.
Research Interests: Colon cancer screening
Recent Publications:
Park SI, Saxe JC, Weesner RE: Does use of the coloscreen self-test improve patient compliance with fecal occult blood screening? Am J Gastroenterology 88:1391-4, 1993.
The Veterans Affairs Cooperative Variceal Sclerotherapy Group: Sclerotherapy for
alcoholic cirrhotic patients who have bled from esophageal varices: Results of a randomized, multicenter clinical trial. Hepatology 20:618-25, 1994.
Mendenhall C, Roselle GA, Gartside P, Moritz T, and the VA Cooperative Study Groups 119 and 275: Relationship of protein calorie malnutrition to alcoholic liver disease: A reexamination of data from two Veterans Administration Cooperative Studies. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 19:635-41, 1995.
Mendenhall C, Moritz T, Roselle G, Morgan T, Nemchausky B, Tamburro C, Schiff E, McClain C, Marsano L, Allen J, Samanta A, Weesner R, Henderson W, Chen T, French S, Chedid A, and the VA Cooperative Study Group #275: Protein energy malnutrition in severe alcoholic hepatitis: Diagnosis and Response to Treatment. JPEN 19:258-265, 1995.
Fischer DR, Nussbaum MS, Pritts TA, Gilinsky NH, Weesner RE, Martin SP, and Giannella RA: Use of omeprazole in the management of giant duodenal ulcers: Results of a prospective study. Surgery 126:643-9, 1999.
Notes: Chief, GI and Liver VAMC Cincinnati Dr. Robert Weesner has spent most of his academic career here at the University of Cincinnati. After graduating from the Indiana University Medical School in 1972, he became a resident at Cincinnati General Hospital and, except for a two-year assignment in the U.S. Army, he has remained an integral part of the College of Medicine. In 1987, he became Director of Diagnostic Gastroenterology at the V.A. Medical Center. In this capacity, he serves as a critical member of the teaching faculty and supervisor of the GI Training Program at the VA. His research interests include alcoholism and its effect on the liver, pancreas and gastrointestinal tract, fecal occult blood testing and dysphagia.
Email: robertweesner@med.va.gov
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