Our Team
Medical Director
Familial Cancer (Risk) Assessment
Bradley A. Arrick, MD, PhD (Lebanon)
Section Chief, Hematology/Oncology
Practice Note: Breast Cancer, Cancer Genetics, Familial Cancer Program, Genetic Testing.
Kasia J. Bloch, CGC, MS (Lebanon, Manchester, St. Johnsbury)
Practice Note: Cancer counseling.
Eleanor R. Riggs, CGC, MS (Lebanon, Manchester)
Practice Note: Genetic counseling, prenatal counseling, cancer counseling.
Gastroenterology
Lynn F. Butterly, MD (Lebanon)
Director, Colorectal Cancer Screening
Practice Note: Colonoscopy registry, colorectal cancer screening and prevention, familial risk for colon cancer, risk assessment for colorectal cancer, significance of small polyps.
Rolland C. Dickson, MD (Lebanon)
Director of Hepatology
Practice Note: Viral hepatitis, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, liver transplantation, end-stage liver disease.
Timothy B. Gardner, MD (Lebanon)
Director, Pancreatic Disorders
Practice Note: ERCP, endoscopic ultrasound, liver disease, malabsorptive disease, pancreatic disease.
Stuart R. Gordon, MD (Lebanon)
Director, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Practice Note: Endoscopic ultrasonography, gallstone disease, liver disease, pancreatic disease, therapeutic biliary endoscopy, esophageal cancer and Barrett's esophagus.
Richard I. Rothstein, MD (Lebanon)
Chair, Department of Medicine
Practice Note: Barrett's Esophagus, dysphagia, endoscopic surgery for GERD and obesity, esophageal disorders, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD), therapeutic biliary endoscopy.
Arifa Toor, MD (Lebanon)
Director, Gastroenterology Fellowship Program
Practice Note: Colitis, functional bowel disorders, inflammatory bowel disease, liver disease.
Medical Oncology
Bradley A. Arrick, MD, PhD (Lebanon)
Section Chief, Hematology/Oncology
Practice Note: Breast Cancer, Cancer Genetics, Familial Cancer Program, Genetic Testing.
Kathryn C. Hourdequin, MD (Lebanon)
Practice Note: Gastrointestinal cancer, pancreatic cancer, hepatobiliary cancer.
Elizabeth B. McGrath, APRN, MSN (Lebanon)
Practice Note: Palliative Care, Spiritual Care, Holistic Nursing.
J. Marc Pipas, MD (Lebanon)
Director, GI Oncology Program
Practice Note: Colon cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, pancreatic cancer.
Gregory H. Ripple, MD (Lancaster, Lebanon, Littleton, St. Johnsbury)
Practice Note: Gastrointestinal cancer.
Molecular Pathology
Gregory J. Tsongalis, PhD (Lebanon)
Director, Molecular Pathology
Practice Note: Molecular Diagnostics for Infectious Disease, Molecular Genetics, Molecular Oncology, Pharmacogenomics.
Palliative Care
Marie A. Bakitas, APRN, DNSc (Lebanon)
Practice Note: Palliative Care
Margaret F. Bishop, APRN, MSN (Lebanon)
Practice Note: Oncology, palliative medicine.
Ira R. Byock, MD (Lebanon)
Director, Palliative Medicine
Practice Note: Consultation/Counseling - Adjustment to Life-threatening Illness, Symptom Evaluation and Management.
Lisa A. Stephens, APRN, MSN (Lebanon)
Practice Note: Palliative Medicine
Pathology
Mikhail Lisovsky, MD, PhD (Lebanon)
Practice Note: Gastrointestinal pathology, genitourinary pathology.
Xiaoying Liu, MD (Lebanon)
Practice Note: Cytopathology, breast pathology.
Arief A. Suriawinata, MD (Lebanon)
Section Chief, Anatomic Pathology
Practice Note: Gastrointestinal Pathology, Liver Pathology, Transplant Pathology.
Gregory J. Tsongalis, PhD (Lebanon)
Director, Molecular Pathology
Practice Note: Molecular Diagnostics for Infectious Disease, Molecular Genetics, Molecular Oncology, Pharmacogenomics.
Radiation Oncology
John F. Marshall, MD (Lebanon, St. Johnsbury)
Practice Note: Breast cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, head & neck cancer, esophageal cancer, HDR, interstitial/implant brachytherapy, isotope use.
Philip E. Schaner, MD, PhD (Lebanon, St. Johnsbury)
Practice Note: Head and neck cancer, intensity modulated radiation therapy, lung cancer, stereotactic body radiosurgery, esophageal cancer.
Thomas C. Sroka, MD, PhD (Lebanon)
Practice Note: Genitourinary cancer, prostate brachytherapy, gastrointestinal cancer, intensity modulated radiation therapy, stereotactic radiosurgery.
Bassem I. Zaki, MD (Lebanon)
Practice Note: Brachytherapy, gastrointestinal cancer, gynecologic cancer, lymphoma, non-sealed radionuclide therapy, radioimmunoglobulins, thyroid cancer.
Radiology
John M. Gemery, MD (Lebanon)
Practice Note: Angiography, interventional radiology, tumor ablation. For GI patients: also embolization including radioembolization (Y90). For endocrine patients: also arterial and venous interventions for relief of symptoms.
Eric K. Hoffer, MD (Lebanon)
Director, Vascular and Interventional Radiology
Practice Note: Angiography, arterial embolization, dialysis access interventions, endovascular arterial or venous recanalization, interventional radiology, stent graft repair for trauma, transcatheter chemoembolization and radioembolization, tumor ablation.
Nancy J. McNulty, MD (Lebanon)
Practice Note: Cross Sectional Imaging, Interventional Radiology.
Michael J. Tsapakos, MD (Lebanon)
Director, Body MRI & 3D Imaging
Practice Note: 3-dimensional Imaging, Abdominal Imaging, Body (below the neck), Cross Sectional Imaging, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).
Surgical Oncology
David A. Axelrod, MD (Lebanon, Manchester)
Section Chief, Transplantation Surgery, Assistant Professor of Surgery & of Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth
Practice Note: Liver tumors (malignant and non-malignant), renal and pancreas transplantation.
General Note: Dr. Axelrod has received several awards, including the American Transplant Congress Young Investigator Award (2005), the American Society of Transplant Surgeons Vanguard Prize (2006), and the American College of Surgeons Health Policy Scholarship for Surgeons (2007).
Richard J. Barth, Jr., MD (Lebanon)
Section Chief, General Surgery
Practice Note: Breast surgery, liver surgery, melanoma surgery, pancreatic surgery, parathyroid surgery, thyroid surgery.
Thomas A. Colacchio, MD (Lebanon)
Practice Note: Endocrine surgery, pancreatic cancer, surgical oncology, thyroid disorders.
Burton L. Eisenberg, MD (Lebanon)
Deputy Director, Norris Cotton Cancer Center; Associate Director, Clinical Research
Practice Note: Surgical oncology, sarcoma, soft tissue tumors, breast cancer, gastrointestinal malignancies, and melanoma.
Richard B. Freeman, Jr., MD (Lebanon)
Chair, Department of Surgery
Practice Note: Liver and kidney transplantation, hepatobiliary surgery, vascular access.
Stefan D. Holubar, MD (Lebanon)
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth
Practice Note: Minimally invasive (laparoscopic) surgery, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, colon cancer, rectal cancer, other benign and malignant conditions of colon, rectum and anus, diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopy. Clinical (outcomes) research.
Lisa B. McCabe, APRN, MS (Lebanon)
Practice Note: Wound Care, Breast Cancer, Benign Breast Disease, Gastrointestinal Oncology, Post-operative Symptom Management.
John J. Murray, MD (Lebanon)
Division Chief, Colon & Rectal Surgery, Visiting Professor of Surgery, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth
Practice Note: Benign and Malignant Disorders of Rectum and Anus, Colon and Rectal Cancer, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Colonoscopy, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Laparoscopic Colon Surgery.
Kerrington D. Smith, MD (Lebanon)
Practice Note: Pancreatic cancer, chronic pancreatitis, minimally invasive approaches to pancreas surgery, endocrine surgery, melanoma surgery, gastrointestinal surgical oncology.
Thoracic Surgery
Cherie P. Erkmen, MD (Lebanon)
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth
Practice Note: Minimally Invasive Thoracic Surgery, Lung Cancer, Esophageal Cancer, Metastatic Lung and Pleural Disease, Mediastinal Tumors, Chest Wall Tumors, Endobronchial and Endoluminal Therapy for Malignancy/ Strictures, Endobronchial Ultrasound-guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (EBUS-TBNA).












































