Medical Advisory Board
We are pleased to have two of the most distinguished colorectal experts in North America serve on our Medical Advisory Board. They provide oversight for our centers’ medical protocols to ensure the highest standards of care possible.
Dr. Iain Cleator
Dr. Marvin Corman
Dr. Iain Cleator
Iain Cleator, M.D., is Professor Emeritus of Surgery at the University of British Columbia. He currently operates the Cleator Clinic, which he founded in 2003 to care for the many patients afflicted with anorectal disorders. Professor Cleator also founded the G.I. Clinic at St. Paul’s hospital in Vancouver and held many positions there including Head of the G.I. Clinic and Head of Service. He has carried out more than 13,000 colonoscopies and specialized in gastrointestinal and bariatric surgery during his career.
Dr. Cleator is a past President of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterologists as well as past President of the Vancouver Medical Association. Dr. Cleator has published more than 100 papers, chapters and articles, and his academic interests include the early detection of colorectal cancer. A 1962 graduate in surgery from Edinburgh University, Dr. Cleator accepted a position as academic surgeon at the University of British Columbia in 1972.
In 2005, Dr. Cleator authored the largest and most comprehensive patient study ever conducted concerning hemorrhoids. The study involved 5,424 procedures performed on 1,852 patients using the CRH-O’Regan Disposable Hemorrhoid Banding System. To the average surgeon performing 100 procedures per year, this data represents over 54 years of hemorrhoid banding. Notably, the study documents the lowest complication rate ever published: 16 in 5,424 procedures, or 0.3%, which is ten times lower than the standard complication rates previously published over the past 45 years using re-usable instruments.
Dr. Marvin Corman
A noted expert in the field of diseases of the colon and rectum, Marvin L. Corman, M.D. is Vice-Chairman of the Department of Surgery at North Shore/Long Island Jewish Medical Center and Professor of Surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, Dr. Corman earned his undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Pennsylvania. He interned at Boston City Hospital with the Fifth (Harvard) Surgical Service, where he also served as surgical resident and then chief surgical resident. He was instructor and then clinical assistant professor at Harvard Medical School before moving west in 1981.
Dr. Corman is past president of the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery. He served as a Professor of Surgery at both UCLA and the University of Southern California before returning to the East Coast in 2001. He was recruited to establish a center of excellence in colon and rectal surgery at the second largest medical facility in the state of New York.
Dr. Corman is the author or co-author of more than 200 articles in the field of colon and rectal surgery and has written the authoritative textbook, Colon and Rectal Surgery (Lippincott/Williams & Wilkins), now in its fifth edition. He has been a named lecturer and visiting professor throughout the world on more than 30 occasions. Among the thousands of videos the American College of Surgeons produces demonstrating operative techniques, one series features Dr. Corman practicing his art.
In addition to his clinical responsibilities Dr. Corman is dedicated to teaching and to research. He is Director of the Residency Program in Colon and Rectal Surgery and Director of the Anorectal Physiology Laboratory. Special areas of interests include anal incontinence, reconstructive surgery of the rectum, sphincter-sparing surgery for cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, and new technologies. His expertise in the area of colorectal surgery is internationally recognized.
For more information regarding Dr. Corman please visit: www.lij.edu/lijh/surgery/corman.html.
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