Dr. Byrd S. Leavell, Jr., co-founder of Charlottesville Gastroenterology Associates, graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1977. He completed his internal medicine residency training from Emory University in 1980. Dr. Leavell completed a two-year fellowship in gastroenterology from the University of Virginia in 1982. He is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology. Dr. Leavell has published several articles and co-authored two manuals on the medical procedures of nasogastric and intestinal tube feeding. He is a past President of the Virginia Gastroenterological Society and the Albemarle County Medical Society and is a member of the American College of Gastroenterology and the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
Dr. Michael J. Oblinger, co-founder of Charlottesville Gastroenterology Associates, graduated from the University of Virginia Medical School in 1976. He completed his internal medicine residency training in 1979 and was the Chief Resident in Medicine at the University of Virginia Hospital from 1979-1980. During this time he earned the James Earnest Kindred Teaching Award. Dr. Oblinger completed a two-year gastroenterology fellowship from the University of Virginia in 1982. He holds board certification in internal medicine and gastroenterology from the American Board of Internal Medicine. He has published several journal articles, abstracts and books on subjects pertinent to the practice of internal medicine and gastroenterology. He has served as the Chief of Medicine at Martha Jefferson Hospital and as Chairman of the Board for Martha Jefferson Health Services. He is a member of the Virginia G.I. Society, the Medical Society of Virginia, the American College of Gastroenterology, and the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.
Dr. Daniel J. Pambianco, who joined Charlottesville Gastroenterology Associates in 1989, graduated from the American University of the Caribbean in 1982. He served as Chief Medical Resident following his internal medicine residency at the Guthrie Clinic in 1985. After completing a University of Virginia gastroenterology fellowship in 1987, he joined their faculty as Assistant Professor of Medicine. He comes to Charlottesville Gastroenterology Associates as the past Director of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Co-Director of Biliary Lithotripsy at the University of Virginia. He serves as the Medical Director of Charlottesville Medical Research. Dr. Pambianco is the recipient of three MSD Grants, a Glaxo Grant and a Biomedical Research Support Grant. He is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology and is a Fellow in the American College of Gastroenterology. He has published journal articles, abstracts and book chapters relative to advances in clinical gastroenterology. He is Director of Endoscopy at Martha Jefferson Hospital and is active in several professional organizations, including the Virginia Gastroenterological Society (past President), the Medical Society of Virginia, and the American Gastroenterological Association.
Dr. David H. Balaban joined Charlottesville Gastroenterology Associates in 1997. He is a 1990 graduate of the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency training at the University of Virginia in 1993. While in residency, he received the W. Leroy Dunn Award from the Department of Internal Medicine and a University of Virginia School of Medicine Resident Teaching Award. After a year in the practice of internal medicine, Dr. Balaban completed a three-year fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of Virginia where he was the recipient of national and international scientific research awards. He has authored numerous abstracts, journal articles, and book chapters in the field of clinical gastroenterology. He holds board certification in gastroenterology. He has served as Chief of Medicine at Martha Jefferson Hospital and is currently Director of Medical Nutrition Support Services. He is a member of the Albemarle County Medical Society and the Medical Society of Virginia. He is a Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology, and the American Gastroenterological Association and is Past-President of the Virginia Gastroenterological Society.
Dr. Diego A. Gomez joined Charlottesville Gastroenterology Associates in 2001. He is a 1988 graduate of the Eastern Virginia University School of Medicine, and he completed his internal medicine residency training at the Medical College of Virginia in 1991 where he received a research award from the American College of Physicians. He then completed his gastroenterology fellowship at MCV in 1993. He returns to Virginia after practicing for 8 years at the Greenbrier Valley Medical Center in Ronceverte, WV. He has published in the field of clinical hepatology, and he holds board certification in internal medicine and gastroenterology.
Dr. Jenny O. Smith, joined CGA in the summer of 2010. She is a 2004 graduate of the University of Mississippi School of Medicine. She completed her residency in internal medicine and fellowship in gastroenterology at the MCV-VCU Hospitals in Richmond, where she served as Chief Fellow in 2009-1010. She is board certified in gastroenterology. She is the recipient of a World Transplant Congress Young Clinical Investigator Award, is a member of the American Gastroenterological Association, the American College of Gastroenterology, and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Her clinical interests include interventional endoscopy and the endoscopic treatment of Barrett’s esophagus, including endoscopic spray cryotherapy and radiofrequency ablation. She has been an invited speaker at ACG regional meetings and Digestive Disease Week. She has published numerous articles in the medical literature in the fields of hepatology and esophageal reflux disease, and she is the author of a book chapter on the evaluation of patients with HIV and viral hepatitis co-infection.