Daniel “Eli” Penn, Md, Fasge Email & Phone Number

Bowling Green, Ky, Us

Bowling Green, Ky, Us

Occupational status pending on complete evaluation by state board and other appropriate testing.

After a serious neurological injury a year ago I’m on medical leave and working on a book. Otherwise I’m open to any professional speaking engagements as before. I’m hoping ultimately to engage medical schools on teaching curriculums that are more patient-friendly/aware.

North Chicago, Illinois, Us

In 2021 many are still falling short in the goal of achieving early and complete histologic remission as the standard of care for inflammatory bowel disease. I enjoy speaking about the evidence for this and educating peers about the relative risks of uncontrolled disease versus medication side effects.

North Chicago, Illinois, Us

Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency remains a common and underdiagnosed condition in the United States. Treatment is safe, effective, and dramatically improves nutrition and quality of life. Education is needed for patients and clinicians. I am particularly motivated by my patients with chronic pancreatitis who often have gone for years without a diagnosis for severe symptoms.

Interventional Gastroenterology in Beaufort, SC. Offices in Okatie/Bluffton. Ehlers Danlos Center of MUSC in Charleston, SC. Associate Professor of Medicine at Mercer University School of Medicine.

Charleston, Sc, Us

North Bethesda, Maryland, Us

Macon, Georgia , Us

Guest lectures, research guidance and mentorship, and career guidance.

Redmond, Wa, Us

Transoral fundoplication for GERD has evolved into an excellent treatment option for patients with small hiatal hernia with minimal hiatal disruption. Its current indication is for treatment of GERD symptoms or manifestations that do not adequately respond to acid suppression medications, but there is a growing debate about the implications of life-long PPI use and many patients are choosing structural repair to avoid having to take medicines, or to eliminate non-acid symptoms that would not respond to acid suppression in any case. Long-term outcomes are excellent in properly selected patients, and large herniae can be effectively treated with combination laparoscopic crural repair and TIF with excellent long-term durability and the benefit of a ~0% incidence of de novo dysphagia, that latter particularly important for patients with preexisting esophageal dysmotility. While some argue that a well-doen Toupet could serve the same purpose as HHR/TIF, the fundoplication created by the TIF has the benefits of being more anatomically correct and a lack of variability between one procedure and the next. Dr. Penn has performed neary 100 successful transoral incisionless fundoplication (TIF) cases, alone and in combination with surgical repair of the hiatus, and frequently serves as a speaker and proctor for Endogastric solutions.

Atrium-Navicent Health System, a large tertiary-care and level 1 trauma center offers nearly every service and specialty and is closely aligned with Mercer University School of Medicine and its residency programs. As a partner in a private group aligned with Atrium-Navicent Health System (in a PSA) Penn enjoyed collaborative relationships with surgical, oncology, and immunology colleagues and frequent teaching opportunities, but he perpetually struggled to get the attention of his partners and administration to address an inexplicable lack of work--in spite of high demand--as well as poor communication with patients and their providers, and inefficient utilization of office support. During the COVID pandemic his partners' productivity stayed level while he struggled to maintain 50% of his historic production. He was convinced that if he reached someone of significant authority they who would cringe at the waste, but this never occurred. An inexplicable discrepancy in access to procedure time persisted even after two years and his full partnership. He was still seeing patients that his partners refused automatically, and was then told what tests he could or couldn't order in their workup (such as hereditary pancreatitis panel, connective tissue panel), citing fear of confusing nurses and detracting from the focus on simpler GI disorders. In the fall of 2021 Dr. Penn began searching for other opportunities with more insightful partners and an administration more vested in its GI service line, patient communication, and where he is free to offer a full spectrum of GI care in the community he serves.

New York City, New York, Us

Chronic pancreatitis is exceedingly common and yet underrecognized due in part to the tendency for CT scans to show no obvious pancreatic abnormality in the 90% of patients who do not yet have calcific disease and the often normal levels of serum amylase and lipase during painful flares. Dr. Penn recognized the scope of our underdiagnosis of chronic pancreatitis while performing EUS on patients with unexplained epigastric pain. He is passionate about raising awareness about chronic pancreatitis, its association with tobacco use, and the incidence of hereditary pancreatitis in young patients who are often mislabelled with psychosomatic pain or drug-seeking behavior. He hopes to generate interest to benefit research on therapeutic treaments that can slow or stop disease progression.

Allston, Ma, Us

One of three physicians nationwide chosen to advise Mauna kea on new applications of is endomicroscopy platform, which allows real-time in vivo microscopic visualization during endoscopic and EUS procedures. Dr. Penn has used endomicroscopy for a range of conditions including to help define margins prior to same-session endoscopic resection of precancerous lesions, dysplasia evaluation, and pancreatic cyst wall evaluation.

Brunswick, Ga, Us

SGHS is a 229-bed hospital that welcomed the addition of EUS and advanced endoscopic closure when Dr. Penn joined their small employed GI group in 2018. Oncologists and pathologists enjoyed the diagnostic and staging evaluations and Dr. Penn's attendance and participation in multidisciplinary tumor board. More advanced EUS-guided interventions, were not as well supported. Dr. Penn had been recruited by SGHS surgeons because of his expertise in managing postoperative leaks that had been transferred to him in Statesboro. He had even saved a young Hispanic man with near-complete intrathoracic anastomotic dehiscence following an Ivor-Lewis esophagectomy by an SGHS surgeon. Dr. Penn performed many memorable cases during his time at SGHS: acute Boerhaave closure, transcolonic drainage of a large diverticular abscess, T1 gastric cancer resection, and his first few POP/pyloromyotom cases. Ultimately the culture of the community-based hospital system proved untenable for Dr. Penn, however. He had no support in 2019 when an elderly woman with a large peritumoral abscess found only during EUS/FNA of a GIST tumor spontaneously ruptured into her peritoneum. Dr. Penn attempted to use LAMS to access and redirect the pus safely into the stomach, but was too late. DIC developed even as she was undergoing formal surgical resection of the mass and she did not survive. Although his actions were supported (and commended) by the board, politics effectively led to SGHS settling the family's demand for compensation. This betrayal led Dr. Penn to leave SGHS in the fall of 2019 to join his current group in Macon, Georgia, where he hoped to find a more supportive group of physicians and hospital.

Eleview was the first commercially-available submucosal lifting agent for EMR (Endoscopic Mucosal Resection). The importance of EMR for completeness of polyp resection was well demonstrated in the CARE study in 2013, but until this agent came to market that seminal study seemed to have gone largely ignored my most gastroenterologists. Speaking for the company was a great opportunity to delve into the data and then to try to raise awareness of the importance of EMR for resection of lesions larger than 10 mm, a divergence from methods that he and many others had been taught.

Statesboro, Georgia, Us

Director of EndoscopyVP Board of Trustees

Gainesville, Florida, Us

UF is well recognized nationally for an expertise in the evaluation and management of complex GI disorders, and for innovative therapeutic endoscopy.

Washington, Dc, Us

Dr. Penn has always been determined to maintain his general medical knowledge and an ability to deliver emergency and critical care. During his three-year GI fellowship he frequently worked additional hours as a solo emergency room physician in Lake City.

Charleston, Sc, Us

During his Residency training at MUSC, Dr. Penn worked with some of the most influential gastroenterologists in the country and cites his experiences there as the reason for his career choice.

Doctor Of Medicine (M.D.), Internal Medicine Residency Program

Gastroenterology, Gastroenterology Fellowship Program

Doctor Of Medicine - Md

M.D., Medicine

B.S., Biology, Chemistry

Bachelor Of Science - Bs

Doctor Of Medicine - Md

Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine Residency Program

Fellowship, Gastroenterology

Additional Training In Eus, Gastroenterology

Subspecialty Fellowship Training, Gastroenterologist