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Stephen J. Heller, MD
Department of Medicine
Attending Physician
Meet other members of the gastrointestinal cancer treatment team.
Meet other members of the
Department of Medicine.
Fox Chase Cancer Center
333 Cottman Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19111-2497
To make an appointment, call:
215-214-1475.
For general information, call:
1-888-FOX CHASE.
An oncology certified nurse will assist you.
Clinical Expertise:
Education:
MD, Columbia University, 1990
Residency:
Stanford University Hospital, Stanford, CA, 1991-1993
Fellowships:
Fellow, Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy, Wellesley Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, 1997-1998;
Fellow, Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 1994-1997;
Visiting Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, 1996;
Visiting Fellow
Honors and Awards:
Lahey Clinic - Gastroenterology Teacher of the Year Award, 2000 and 2008;
Poster Presentation, Canadian Digestive Disease Week, 1998;
Invited Presenter, ASGE/Astra Merck Young Investigators’ Conference in Digestive Diseases, 1996;
Finalist, New England Endoscopy Society Research Abstract Competition, 1996-1997;
Finalist, Resident Teaching Award, Stanford Hospital, 1991-1992
Professional Societies:
American College of Gastroenterology
American Gastroenterological Association
American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Massachusetts Medical Society
American College of Physicians, 1993-2007
International Association of Pancreatology, 1994-1997
American Medical Association, 1991-1994
California Medical Association, 1991-1994
Publications:
I am pleased to join the staff of Fox Chase as a gastroenterologist and therapeutic endoscopist. I look forward to contributing to a faculty and medical center with remarkable focus and dedication. It is exciting to join an institution with a clear vision of its mission and a desire for growth. My previous position was at the Lahey Clinic outside of Boston, where I practiced for nine years and held a number of administrative roles including fellowship training director in gastroenterology. In my work at a general hospital I found the care of patients with cancer most rewarding. I got considerable satisfaction from assisting patients in coping with the challenge of their diagnosis, and when possible, I valued the chance to help patients with cancer live longer, better lives.
As therapeutic endoscopists, we also have the ability to intervene in precancerous conditions and early cancers, thereby preventing cancer from taking hold. At Fox Chase, with our unique patient population, access to state of the art technology, and the support and expertise of my colleagues, there will be ample opportunity to do so — for example in patients with premalignant disease of the esophagus, large polyps of the colon and rectum, and early tumors of the stomach.
Although technology is a vital part of what we do, there is nothing more important in the practice of medicine than the human interaction between clinician and patient, and I look forward to the opportunity to serve our patients, who deserve the very best that medicine has to offer.