Mani Mahdavian, M.D., joined City of Hope® Cancer Center Chicago in October 2017 as an interventional gastroenterologist, collaborating on a multidisciplinary team of cancer experts to treat patients diagnosed with gastrointestinal cancers. An expert in endoscopic resection, endoscopic ultrasound, stenting, suturing, radiofrequency ablation and other procedures used to treat gastrointestinal (GI) conditions, he has expanded City of Hope’s expertise in the delivery of innovations in interventional gastroenterology techniques, including endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) and endoscopic sub-mucosal resection (ESD).
Board certified in gastroenterology by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Mahdavian earned his medical degree from the Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, Iran, then completed a research fellowship at the University of California San Francisco in the wound healing and plastic surgery labs of the school’s Department of Surgery.
After finishing his internal medicine residency at Edgewater Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, Dr. Mahdavian completed a gastroenterology fellowship at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois, then pursued additional training in endoscopic ultrasound at the University of Montreal in Montreal, Canada, and the University of Illinois in Chicago. Committed to educating and training the next generation of physicians, he returned to Lutheran General to serve on the faculty, twice earning the Teaching Faculty of the Year award. He also continues to serve as Associate Professor of Medicine at Rosalind Franklin University Chicago Medical School.
A member of multiple clinical associations and boards, including the American Medical Association, the American College of Gastroenterology and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Dr. Mahdavian continues to advance the field of gastroenterology as well as cancer treatment and prevention as a prolific leading and contributing author on numerous publications, abstracts and lectures.
Gastroenterology - American Board of Internal Medicine
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Gastroenterology - Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, IL
Research – Wound Healing Lab, Plastic Surgery Lab, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Internal Medicine - Edgewater Medical Center, Chicago, IL
American Medical Association
American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
American College of Gastroenterology