ColumbiaDoctors - Midtown
51 West 51st Street
New York, NY 10019
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About Pokala Ravi Kiran, MD
Dr. Ravi P. Kiran is the co-director of the Global Center for Integrated Colorectal Surgery and IBD Interventional Endoscopy at NewYork-Presbyerian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Prior to that, he served as chief and program director of the Division of Colorectal Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center for over a decade. He is also the Director of the Center for Innovation and Outcomes Research in the Department of Surgery. Dr. Kiran, a renowned surgeon-scientist with expertise in inflammatory bowel disease, colorectal cancer, and other complicated colorectal conditions, joined NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia from the Cleveland Clinic, where he ...
Board Certifications
- Colon and Rectal Surgery
- Surgery
Expertise
- Abscess Drainage
- Adhesions
- Anal Cancer
- Anal Fissure and Fistula
- Anal Fistula
- Anal Sphincter Incontinence
- Anal Warts
- Anorectal Disorder
- Anorectal Surgical Procedures
- Biofeedback Therapy
- Bowel-Sparing Strictureplasty
- Colectomies
- Colitis
- Colon and Rectal Cancer
- Colon and Rectal Disease
- Colon Cancer
- Colon Cancer Screening
- Colon Polyps
- Colon/Rectal Cancer Surgery
- Colonoscopy
- Colorectal Cancer
- Colorectal Cancer Screening
- Colorectal Surgery
- Complex Anal Fistula Disease
- Constipation
- Crohn's Disease
- Diverticular Disease
- Diverticulitis
- Fecal Incontinence
- Fistula, Anal
- Genital Warts
- Hemorrhoid Surgery
- Hemorrhoids
- Ileostomy
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
- Intestinal Obstruction
- Intussusception
- J Pouch
- K Pouch (Continent Ileostomy)
- Laparoscopic Colectomy
- Laparoscopic Colon and Rectal Surgery
- Laparoscopic Colon Resection
- Laparoscopic Colon Surgery
- Laparoscopic Proctectomy
- Megacolon
- Min Invasive Colorectal Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Rectal Surgery
- Ostomy Care
- Ostomy Creation, Care and Revision
- Ostomy Reversals
- Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
- Pelvic Floor-Muscle Rehab
- Pilonidal Cyst/Abscess
- Rectal and Anal Surgery
- Rectal Bleeding
- Rectal Cancer
- Rectal Carcinoma
- Rectal Prolapse
- Rectal Surgery
- Rectovaginal Fistula Repair
- Robotic Colon and Rectal Surgery
- Small Bowel Cancer
- Small Bowel Disease
- Small Bowel Resection
- Sphincter Saving Operations
- Sphincter Sparing Surgery
- Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery (TEMS)
- Twisted Colon/Intestine
- Ulcerative Colitis
Education
- Fellowship: Cleveland Clinic Hospital
- Internship: Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center - NY
- Residency: St Mary's Hospital
Titles & Positions
- Co-Director, Global Center for Integrated Colorectal Surgery and IBD Interventional Endoscopy
- Director, Center for Innovation and Outcomes Research
- Kenneth A. Forde Professor of Surgery (in Epidemiology)
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center
- NewYork-Presbyterian Allen Hospital
- NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital
- NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester
Education
- Internship: Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center - NY
- Fellowship: Cleveland Clinic Hospital
- Residency: St Mary's Hospital
Awards & Honors
- Top Doctors New York Metro Area (digital guide): 2018, 2017, 2016
- New York Magazine: Top Doctors 2018, 2016
- Castle Connolly Regional Top Doctor: 2015 to present
- Best Doctors in Cleveland, 2012
- ASCRS Traveling Fellow, 2012
- Teacher of the Year in Colorectal Surgery at Cleveland Clinic, 2011
- Resident researcher of the year, 2005-2006
- Resident teacher of the year, 2003-2004
- Research degree in Evidence Based Medicine from Oxford in the United Kingdom
- Surgical fellowships from the Royal Colleges of Surgeons, England, and Glasgow
Titles & Positions
- Co-Director, Global Center for Integrated Colorectal Surgery and IBD Interventional Endoscopy
- Director, Center for Innovation and Outcomes Research
- Kenneth A. Forde Professor of Surgery (in Epidemiology)
Board Certifications
- colon and rectal surgery
- surgery