Anthony Kalloo, M.D. Profile

Dr. Anthony Kalloo is professor of medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, division of gastroenterology. He is the director of the division of gastroenterology and hepatology with special interests in natural orifice surgery, therapeutic endoscopy, biliary and pancreatic diseases and sphincter of Oddi dysfunction. 

He was an Associate Editor of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and he has authored multiple scientific papers and book chapters. He has pioneered and has several patents including the use of Botulinum Toxin in the gastrointestinal tract, endoscopic cryotherapy and the winged biliary/pancreatic stent. He is the pioneer of Natural Orifice Surgery, a technique that will enable abdominal surgery without the use of incisions.

Dr. Kalloo is a past Panel Chair for Gastroenterology and Urology Devices with the United States Food and Drug Administration.   He is a member of the Apollo group, a think-tank endoscopy group. Dr. Kalloo and the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology aim to advance the understanding, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of gastrointestinal and liver disease through patient care, education and research.

He is the founder and immediate past medical director of The Hopkins Gastroenterology and Hepatology Resource Center (www.hopkins-gi.org), a 3000 page multilingual web resource for patients and physicians.

After receiving his medical degree from the University of West Indies Medical School, Dr. Kalloo interned at Port of Spain General Hospital in Trinidad and Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C. He completed his fellowship training program at the combined Georgetown University, VA Medical Center and NIH program. He was an Instructor in Medicine at Georgetown University prior to joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 1988.