Dr Khaldoun A. Debian

Education

Fellowship:
University of California San Francisco,
Gastroenterology, 2000

Residency:
University of Kansas School Medicine - Wichita
Wichita, Kansas, 1995

Internship:
Good Samaritan/John’s Hopkin’s University, 1993

Medical School:
American University of Beirut, Lebanon, M.D. 1992

University:
American University of Beirut, Lebanon, B.S Biology, 1988

Board Certification

American Board of Internal Medicine, 1995
American Board of Gastroenterology, 2002

Academic Appointments:
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine,
Department of Medicine, GI/Liver Division
Director of Pancreatico-biliary and Advanced Endoscopy Program
Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California
October 2, 2000 - November 19, 2003

Society Memberships:
American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE)
American College of Gastroenterology

Presentations and Lectures:

"Impact of Method of Scope Reprocessing upon Endoscopy Repair costs" Abstract and poster presented at the DDW 1999

"Stenting and The GI tract"; GI Faculty UC Harbor, September 2000

“Abdominal Pain”; Fourth year medical students USC, February 2001,2002

“Peptic Ulcer Disease”; Internal Medicine residents USC, March 2001,2002

“ Malabsorption”; Second year medical students USC, April 2001,2002

“ PUD and NSAIDs”; Internal Medicine faculty at USC Roybal Clinic, January 2002

Publications:
Early Ductal Decompression Versus Conservative Management for Gallstone
Pancreatitis With Ampullary Obstruction: A Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial.
Annals of Surgery: Volume 243(1) January 2006 pp 33-40

Book chapters:
Cystic disease of the biliary tree. In Textbook of Gastroenterology (4th Edition)
Yamada, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Pennsylvania, in press 2002

Sclerosing Cholangitis, Encyclopedia of Gastroenterology, Academic Press, 2004

Special Interests:
Advanced Endoscopic Esophageal Procedures (stenting, radiofrequency ablation, Endoscopic procedures for GERD, capsule pH monitoring) Pancreatic and Biliary Disease including cholangioscopy and, pancreatoscopy , Palliative Endoscopic procedures, Small Bowel Disease including Capsule Endoscopy, And Single Balloon Endoscopy