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Administrative Office
Dr. James Gossage, MD, Director
Section of Pulmonary
1120 15th Street
BBR5513
Augusta, GA 30912-3130
Phone: (706) 721-6791
Fax:     (706) 721-3069

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New Patient Referrals and Questions:
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Phone: (706) 721-4495

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Phone: (706) 721-1790


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Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) Staff

James R. Gossage, MD
Dr. Gossage is director of the Pulmonary Hypertension program.  He received his MD degree in 1984 and did a fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Vanderbilt University from 1988-1991.  He has treated patients with PH for over 16 years and has been involved in PH research for 15 years.  He is skilled in
right heart catheterization and has performed over 1000 in the past 20 years. 

 Dermatology

Gastroenterology

S. Sridhar, MD,MBBS, FRCP, FRSS(Lond), FRCPC(Med & Gastro),FACP, FACG, FASLM&S
Dr. Sridhar is an associate professor in the section of gastroenterology since 1999. He receiced his MBBS degree from the University of Mysore in India. He did his residency training at teaching hospitals in London, Cambridge, and Bedford, England and did his fellowship in gastroenterology including interventional endoscopy from Glasgow, Scotland. He obtained additional residency training in medicine from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada and additional fellowship in gastroenterology including  special training in gastrointestinal lasers and pancreatobiliary endoscopy and research  from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He has a clinical and research interest in obscure gastrointestinal bleeding.

Genetics
Carolyn Lovell
Carolyn Lovell is a certified genetic counselor who has been working with the HHT team since March 2005. She attended Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. In 1989, she earned a Master of the Arts in Teaching degree from the University of South Carolina and taught high school biology for 6 years. She returned to school and earned a Master of Science degree in Genetic Counseling in 1997. She has experience working with prenatal, pediatric, and adults genetics teams.

David Flannery, MD

Anita.Kulharya, PhD

Hematology

Abdullah Kutlar, MD

Interventional Radiology

David Riggans, MD  
Dr. Riggans is an Interventional Radiologist. He received his MD degree in 1995 from the Medical College of Georgia and completed his Radiology Residency at the University of Kansas in 2001. Dr. Riggans attended MD Anderson Cancer Center where he completed his Fellowship training in Vascular and Interventional Radiology in 2002. He has been performing embolization procedures for five years and treating patients with HHT for over two years.

Neurology

J. Ned Pruitt, MD
Dr. Pruitt is an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology . He has special interest in Headache and  Stroke.  He received his MD from the Medical College of Georgia  in 1989. He completed his Neurology residency in 1993 and had further fellowship in Neuromuscular disease at the Mayo Clinic from 1993-1995.  He is director on the Neurology Outpatient Clinical services.

Neurosurgery

Cargill H. Alleyne, Jr. MD
Dr. Alleyne is Academic Vice-Chair, Residency Program Director and Chief of the Cerebrovascular Division in the Department of Neurosurgery. He received his M.D. degree from Yale School of Medicine, completed his residency at Emory University affiliated hospitals and a fellowship in vascular and skull base tumors at the Barrow Neurological Institute. He practiced at University of Rochester, NY for 4 ½ years before being recruited to MCG. Dr. Alleyne is also trained in endovascular techniques and performs diagnostic angiograms and interventional neuroradiology procedures with his colleague Dr. Jeff Stone.

 

Otolaryngology (ENT)

Edward Porubsky, Sr. MD

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September 12, 2008