Michael Schiff, MD, FACP

Associate Professor of Oncology, Department of Medicine

Chief, Division of Gastroenterology

Co-Director, Translational Endoscopy

Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Profile

Areas of Expertise:

Colon cancer and polyps

Graft vs. host disease

Research

Research Interests:

Barrett’s esophagus

Capsule endoscopy

Colon cancer

Confocal laser endoscopy

Diagnosis and etiology of graft versus host disease

Magnification chromoendoscopy

Background Information

Education and Training:

MD - University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Residency:

Mt. Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Board Certification:

Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine

Gastroenterology, American Board of Internal Medicine

Fellowships:

University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

Publications

Publications:

Chadha KS, Chadha KS, Schiff M , Sitrin MD , Wilding GE , Nava H. Clinical outcomes of using a conservative approach of late esophageal stent placement in palliation of malignant dysphagia. Journal of gastrointestinal cancer 2010; 41(3):173-178
Javle MM, Smith PF, Prey JD, Clark KR, LeVea C, Nava HR, Schiff MD, Vinjamaram S, O'Malley L, Wilding GE, Nwogu CE, Yang G, Pendyala L. Capecitabine, oxaliplatin and radiotherapy: a phase IB neoadjuvant study for esophageal cancer with gene expression analysis. Cancer investigation 2009; 27(2):193-200
Varadarajan P, Hahn T, Smiley S, Battiwalla M, Padmanabhan S, Schiff M, Syta M, Paplham P, Brown K, Thomas JA, Dunford LM, McCarthy Jr PL. Seeing what's out of sight: wireless capsule endoscopy's unique ability to visualize and accurately assess the severity of gastrointestinal graft-versus-host-disease. Biology of blood and marrow transplantation 2009; 15(5):643-648
Singh Chadha K, Thatikonda C, Schiff M, Nava H, Sitrin MD. Outcomes of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube placement using a T-fastener gastropexy device in head and neck and esophageal cancer patients. Nutrition in clinical practice 2010; 25(6):658-662
Hepgur M, Bullard Dunn KM, Hahn TE, Loud PA, Schiff MD, Liu H, Thomas J, Anne N, Ahluwalia MS, McCarthy PL Jr. Medical management of pneumatosis intestinalis in patients undergoing allogeneic blood and marrow transplantation. Bone marrow transplantation 2011; 46(6):876-879
Donthireddy KR, Ailawadhi S, Nasser E, Schiff MD, Nwogu CE, Nava HR, Javle MM. Malignant gastroparesis: pathogenesis and management of an underrecognized disorder. Journal of supportive oncology 2007; 5(8):355-363
Foster JM, Filocamo P, Nava H, Schiff M, Hicks W, Rigual N, Smith J, Loree T, Gibbs JF. The introducer technique is the optimal method for placing percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tubes in head and neck cancer patients. Surgical endoscopy 2007; 21(6):897-901
Chadha K, Thatikonda C, Miller A, Nava H, Sitrin M, Hicks W, Rigual N, Loree T, Schiff M. Outcomes of Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy Tube Placement using the Brown-Muller T-fastener Technique in Head, Neck and Esophageal Cancer patients. American journal of gastroenterology 2009; 104(Suppl. 3):Abstract #1351
Pahk A, McCarthy P, Smiley S, Nava H, Yang G, Smith J, Trump D, Battiwalla M, Andrews C, Schiff M. Wireless Capsule Endoscopy as a Diagnostic Tool and Predictor of Acute and Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease. American journal of gastroenterology 2009; 104(Suppl. 3):Abstract #1354
Sunga AY, Levea C, Fakih M, Reid M, Mahoney M, Smith J, Trump D, Johnson C, Schiff M. Aberrant crypt foci characterization in selected colorectal cancer risk groups. Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2007; 48:397
Varadarajan P, Battiwalla M, Smiley S, Schiff M, Hahn T, McCarthy PL. Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) is an important diagnostic and management tool of gastrointestinal (GI) acute and chronic graft versus host disease (GVHD) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AlloHSCT) and identifies gastroparesis as a prominent complication of GI GVHD. Blood 2007; 110(11 Part 1):Abstract #2985
Abluwalia MS, Anne N, Smiley SL, Battiwalla M, Schiff MD, Loud PA, Hahn T, Bullard DKM, McCarthy PL. Medical management of pneumatosis intestinalis in patients undergoing allogeneic blood and marrow transplantation. Biology of blood and marrow transplantation 2009; 15(2 Suppl. 2):312

Referral

Email:

Michael.Schiff@RoswellPark.org

Fax:

716-845-3519