Colorectal Surgery

Appointments: 732-235-8845 | General Inquiries: 732-235-8845

The Colorectal Surgery program at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital delivers the highest level of comprehensive colorectal care. All of our surgeons have completed advanced fellowships specifically in Colorectal Surgery and are board-certified.

Patient care is individualized based on the unique complexity of each person. Patients are managed using a multi-disciplinary approach that coordinates care between gastroenterology, radiology, oncology, urology and gynecology, as needed.

Meet our Colorectal Surgeons

Our Colorectal Surgery practice cares for more inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients than any other surgical practice in New Jersey. We routinely evaluate patients with complex Crohn’s Disease and medically refractory Ulcerative Colitis and work closely with gastroenterologists to optimize the care of these patients.

How does our colorectal care differ from other practices?

Prioritize Patients in Need

Patients with peri-anal pain and patients newly diagnosed with colorectal cancer are offered appointments the same day or the following day (“no wait” policy).

Advanced Surgical Interventions

• Over 80% of our resections are completed using laparoscopic/robotic approaches
• We have broad expertise in colorectal cancer resections and surgery for Inflammatory Bowel Disease and diverticulitis
• We are a quaternary referral center for complex colorectal problems – over a third of the patients we operate on were seen as a second opinion
• We encourage sphincter-preserving approaches emphasizing stoma avoidance
• We offer a novel, muscle-sparing approach to manage chronic anal fissure

Enhanced Recovery Pathway

With this approach, post-operative patients have lower risk of surgical site infection, shorter hospital stays, less pain, and quicker return to baseline level of functioning.

Multi-modal Analgesia

As a group, we take post-operative pain control very seriously. We routinely utilize state of the art regional nerve blocks (e.g., TAP and erector spinae blocks) using long-lasting, extended release pain medications and non-narcotic pain medications as well as Gabapentin/pregabalin. Opioids are minimized to the extent possible.

Personalized Comprehensive Cancer Care

All cancer patients are presented and reviewed at the weekly multi-disciplinary tumor board at Rutgers Cancer Institute and care plans are individualized based on the high-level discussion. As New Jersey’s only NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, patients have access to the most advanced treatment options including clinical trials, precision medicine, and immunotherapy.

Commonly Treated Conditions

• Anorectal maladies (abscess, anal cancer, fissure, fistula, hemorrhoids, rectal prolapse, etc.)
• Colon cancer/Rectal cancer
• Colonic inertia
• Complex fistulas (rectovaginal, colo-vesicular, peri-anal, etc.)
• Diverticulitis
• Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn’s disease, Ulcerative colitis, Indeterminate colitis)
• Patients desiring colostomy reversal (Hartmann reversal)
• Pilonidal disease
• Polyps requiring advanced endoscopy techniques or surgery
• Radiation proctitis

Our Services

Robotic Surgery - Over 80% of our resections are completed using laparoscopic/robotic approaches (minimally invasive surgery) which allows patients to have less post-operative pain, shorter stays in the Hospital and better outcomes than with traditional “open” surgery

Colostomy reversal surgery – many patients have a colostomy created elsewhere in the tri-state area and come to our group to undergo reversal surgery. This operation is usually more complex than the original operation that created the colostomy and our group has experience and expertise in these kinds of operations.

Complex anal surgery – our surgeons have all completed advanced surgery fellowships that focused on performing these kinds of operations and patients come to our group to undergo anal surgery with less pain and less risk of control issues.

Dedicated out-patient wound ostomy nursing care – Aliza Gatisky APN WOCN is an integral part of our practice and treats patients with all kinds of stoma related issues as well as wounds.

Colonoscopy – each of our surgeons performs colonoscopy on a regular basis and the wait time for our provides is usually much shorted than other clinicians who perform this service.

Location

210 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
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