New Faculty Profiles
Yasser Saloum, MD is an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition. He received his medical degree from the Damascus University of School of Medicine in Syria. He completed his internal medicine residency at St. Lukes Hospital and St. Louis Regional Medical Center, University of Missouri. Dr. Saloum completed a gastroenterology fellowship at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He is board ertified in internal medicine and gastroenterology. Dr. Saloum has previously been a faculty member at the University of Florida where he was Associate Director of the Gastroenterology Fellowship Program, and the University of Florida in Jacksonville where he was Director of the Nutrition Center. He was in the provate practice of gastroenterology in Tampa before joining the University of South Florida faculty. Dr. Saloum is available to see patients with gastrointestinal and nutritional disorders. His primary interests include advanced diagnostic and therapeutic pancreatico-biliary endoscopy, nutritional support, chronic diarrhea, and intestinal motility.
Dr. Soojong Hong Chae
Department of Internal Medicine
Digestive Diseases and Nutrition
Dr. Soojong Hong Chae has joined USF as a clinical faculty member of the Department of Internal Medicine, Digestive Diseases and Nutrition and as an Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine. Dr. Hong Chae graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine in 2003. She completed her residency at the University of Michigan in 2006. Her fellowship training began at UCLA and was completed at the University of Michigan in 2009. She subsequently joined the Gastroenterology department at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan.
Dr. Hong Chae’s clinical interests are in functional bowel diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, motility disorders such as pelvic floor dyssynergia as well as inflammatory bowel disease. Dr. Hong Chae sees patients at the Morsani Center for Advanced Healthcare.
For Appointments, please call: 813-974-4115
Arthi Sanjeevi, M.D., MS
Division of Gastroenterology
Dr. Arthi Sanjeevi has joined USF as a Clinical Gastroenterology Faculty Member in the Department of Internal Medicine and Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine. Dr. Sanjeevi graduated from Madras Medical College in1998. Shecompleted her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska in 2003. She subsequently did her Gastroenterology fellowship and Masters in Epidemiology at Medical College of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, WI which she completed in the 2006. Her training in GI was NIH funded with a focus in GI motility disorders and neurogastroenterology. After this she was a teaching faculty at Medical College of Virginia andan assistant professorin the Division of Gastroenterology at Virginia Commonwealth University at Richmond, Virginia. Here she directed the Motility lab and was actively involved in the fellowship teaching program for three years. She underwent further advanced therapeutic endoscopy training in ERCP and Endoscopic Ultrasound with a focus of pancreato-biliary disorders at University of Minnesota Medical Center from 2009 to 2010.
Dr. Sanjeevi's primary clinical interests focus on application of endoscopic ultrasound technologyin both improveddiagnosis of gastrointestinal disorders and as aninterventional endoscopic tool in complicated pancreato-biliary disorders. She performs routine outpatient endoscopy such as EGD, colonoscopy and capsule endoscopy at Morsani Center for Advanced Healthcareand other complex endoscopic procedures such as Endoscopic Ultrasound, ERCP,esophageal enteral stent placements, and deep enteroscopyat Tampa General Hospital.
She welcomes new referrals forboth routine and complex gastrointestinalluminal disorders. Dr. Sanjeevi sees patients at the Morsani Center for Advanced Healthcare and at the USF Health South Tampa Center for Advanced Healthcare.
For appointments at either Morsani or South Tampa, please call: (813) 259-2201. To directly schedule an endoscopy with Dr Sanjeevi please call: (813) 259-2870.
Laxmi deepika Koya, M.D.
Internal Medicine – Digestive Diseases & Nutrition
Dr. Koya has joined USF as a clinical faculty member and Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine/Division of Digestive Diseases & Nutrition. Dr. Koya completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the Abington Memorial Hospital, PA in 2004. She then worked as a clinical faculty/Academic research fellow in the division of General Internal Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina for 3 years. During this period she completed her masters in clinical research and obtained a Masters of Science in clinical research. Subsequently, she completed her Gastroenterology & Hepatology fellowship training in 2010 at the University of South Florida.
Dr. Koya’s primary clinical interests focus on endoscopy, reflux disease, Barrett’s esophagus, colon cancer screening, irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel disease. She welcomes referrals for management of general Gastrointestinal problems. Her primary research interest is quality assessment in endoscopy. Dr. Koya is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Board Eligible in Gastroenterology. Dr. Koya sees patients at the Morsani Center for Advanced Healthcare and performs endoscopy at the USF Health Endoscopy and Surgery Center.
For patient appointments for Gastroenterology consultations at the Morsani clinic, please call 813-974-4115.
For endoscopy appointments at the USF Health Endoscopy & Surgery Center, please call: (813)-974-2870