Dr. DeLegge is a Professor of Medicine in the Digestive Disease Center and its Director as well as Director of the Digestive Disease Service Line.  He is also the Director for the section of nutrition and the Medical Director of Nutrition for the Medical University of South Carolina.  Dr. DeLegge is also the Chairman of the Nutrition Committee, the Pharmacy and Therapeutics committee, and the Dietetic Internship Program.

Dr. DeLegge is board certified in internal medicine, gastroenterology and nutrition.  He manages patients with complex medical problems such as malabsorption and short bowel syndrome.  He also is the specialist for placement of feeding tubes in the gastrointestinal tract, and the subsequent management of those patients.  His nutrition research focuses on nutritional assessment, parenteral nutrition and enteral nutrition.

Dr. DeLegge is also very active in gastroenterology.  In additional to the diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures, he is also very active in the fields of hemorrhoid treatment, gastrointestinal fistula treatment, gastrointestinal stenting, endoscopic treatment of GERD and Barrett's esophagus, and stricture/achalasia dilation.  He is very active in the development of new endocopic techniques, especially in the field of the endoscopic management of obesity.

Dr. DeLegge's Curriculum Vitae (PDF Format)*

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