Sept. 18, 2018 | Stephan Dehmel, M.D., has joined the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) as a gastroenterologist and assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine in the UAMS College of Medicine.
Dehmel comes to UAMS with 20 years of experience as a physician and educator in the United Kingdom and Germany. His special interest is in conditions of the luminal GI tract and in endoscopy.
He earned his medical degree from the University of Leipzig School of Medicine in Germany. He completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in hepato-gastroenterology at City Hospital Karlsruhe in Germany.
At the UAMS Gastroenterology Clinic, Dehmel is a member of the most complete gastroenterology team of specialists in the state. They treat the entire spectrum of GI conditions: GERD and swallowing disorders, stomach ulcers, gastritis, enteritis, inflammatory bowel diseases like colitis and Crohn’s disease, GI bleeds, hepatitis, cirrhosis and conditions affecting the bile ducts and gallbladder. The team has the latest diagnostic tools in endoscopy, laboratory testing and imaging at their disposition. They are part of the multi-disciplinary UAMS liver transplant program, Arkansas’ only liver transplant program.