SAN JOSE GASTROENTEROLOGY

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RUEL TAN GARCIA, M.D.
Education and Training
  • Medical Doctor, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, La Jolla, CA 1988-1992
  • BS Biological Sciences with Magna cum laude, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 1985 - 1988

Post-Graduate Training
  • Fellow in Gastroenterology, University of California, San Francisco 1999-2002
  • Residency in Internal Medicine, University of California, San Diego, Medical Center 1994-1996
  • Internship in Internal Medicine, University of California, San Diego, Medical Center 1993-1994
  • Internship in General Surgery, University of California, San Diego, Medical Center 1992-1993

Certification and Licensure
  • California Medical License, G79067: 1994.
  • American Board of Internal Medicine, #171501: 1996.
  • American Board of Gastroenterology, #171501: 2002.

Professional Activities
  • Staff physician, Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital-Based Specialist, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Walnut Creek, CA 1998-1999
  • Staff Physician, Department of Internal Medicine, Southern California Permanente Medical Group, San Diego, CA 1996-1998
  • Staff physician, Point Loma Internal Medicine Group, San Diego, CA 1996-1996
  • Member, American College of Gastroenterology
  • Member, American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
  • Member, American Gastroenterological Association
  • Member, American Association for the Study of Liver Disease

Invited Speaker
  • Invited Speaker: Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B, San Jose, CA, July 2004
  • Invited Speaker: Evaluation and Treatment of Dyspepsia, Medical Grand Round, San Jose Medical Center, San Jose, CA, October 2003
  • Invited Speaker: Evaluation and Treatment of Dyspepsia, Medical Grand Round, Regional Medical Center of San Jose, San Jose, CA, October 2003
  • Invited Speaker: Updates in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Nursing Grand Round, Regional Medical Center of San Jose, San Jose, CA, November 2003
  • Invited Speaker: Evaluation and Treatment of Dyspepsia, San Jose, CA, January 2004
  • Invited Speaker: Randomized controlled trial tutorial, San Jose, CA, May 2004

Education and Community Service
  • Volunteer Attending Physician in Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center/Stanford University 2003 
  • Mentor: Physician Assistant Hoang Dang for AASLD NP/PA Fellowship 2004-2005.
  • Faculty: Management of complications of cirrhosis, Seventh Annual Liver Symposium, San Jose Gastroenterology and Stanford University Medical Center, San Jose, CA, October 2004

Publications
  • Hatton JD, Garcia R, U HS. Migration of grafted rat astrocytes: dependence on source/target organ. Glia 1992, 5(4): 251-8.
  • Nguyen MH, Garcia RT, Simpson P, Wright TL, Keeffe EB. Racial differences in effectiveness of ±-fetoprotein for diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma in HCV cirrhosis. Hepatology 2002; 36:410-417.
  • Garcia RT, Cello JP, Nguyen MH, Rogers SJ, Rodas A, Trinh H, Stollman N, McQuaid KR. Unsedated ultrathin EGD is well accepted: A multicenter randomized trial and cost analysis of unsedated ultrathin EGD vs. sedated conventional EGD. Gastroenterology 2003; 125:1606-1612.
  • Nguyen MH, Whittemore AS, Garcia RT, Tawfeek SA, Ning J, Lam S, Wright TL, Keeffe EB. Race as a risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma in U.S. patients with hepatitis C cirrhosis: a case-control study. Clinical Gastroenterol Hepatol 2004; 2:820-824

Abstracts
  • Mindie H. Nguyen, Huy N. Trinh, Ruel T. Garcia. Significant histologic disease in HBV-infected patients with normal to minimally elevaed ALT levels at initial evaluation [Abstract]. AASLD Annual Meeting, San Francisco, October 2005.
  • Mindie H. Nguyen, Huy N. Trinh, Ruel T. Garcia, Emmet B. Keeffe. Treatment outcomes to combination therapy in patients with HCV genotype 6 [Abstract]. AASLD Annual Meeting, San Francisco, October 2005.
  • Khoa D. Lam, Mindie H Nguyen, Huy N Trinh, Long Nguyen, Khanh K Ngyen, Huy A Nguyen, Aijaz Ahmed, Ruel T Garcia. Dimunitive colon polyps in Asians are more likely to be adenomatous compared to non-Asians [Abstract]. American College of Gastroenterology Annual Meeting, Honolulu, November 2005.
  • Ruel T Garcia, Khoa D Lam, Huy N. Trinh, Khanh K. Nguyen, Long Nguyen, Huy A. Nguyen, Mindie H. Nguyen. Outcomes of screening colonoscopy in Asian Americans compared to other ethnic groups [Poster]. American College of Gastrotenterology Annual Meeting, Honolulu, November 2005.
  • Long Nguyen, Khoa D. Lam, Mindie H. Nguyen, Huy N Trinh, Khanh K Nguyen, Huy A Nguyen and Ruel T Garcia. Outcomes of colonoscopic evaluation for rectal bleed in Asian Americans [Poster]. American College of Gastroenterology Annual Meeting, Honolulu, November 2005.
  • Tran CP, Garcia RT, Lam VT, Hoang TT, Keeffe EB, Nguyen MH. Lead poisoning as etiology for abdominal pain and pseudo-obstruction in adults. Am J Gastroenterol 2004. In press.
  • Nguyen MH, Trinh HN, Garcia RT, Vien P, Keeffe EB. Hepatitis C is a major etiology for HCC in Vietnamese Americans. ubmitted to AASLD Annual Meeting, Boston, October 2004. Am J Gastroenterol 2004. In press.
  • Choi BY, Ahmed A, Rezavi M, Sze D, Simpson N, Garcia RT, Keeffe EB, Nguyen MH. treatment outcomes of transcatheter arterial chemoinfusion (TACI) in patients with unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Am J Gastroenterol 2004. In press.
  • Nguyen MH, Trinh HN, Garcia RT, Ning J, Keeffe EB. High prevalence of novel genotypes in Vietnamese patients with hepatitis C [Abstract]. Gastroenterology 2004;126:4(suppl. 2):2020A.
  • Nguyen MH, Garcia RT, Ning J, Tawfeek SA, Lam S, Mahmood G, Wright TL, Keeffe EB. Racial differences in risk for liver cancer in U.S. patients with hepatitis C cirrhosis [Abstract]. Gastroenterology 2003 (suppl);124(6):121A. (Oral presentation at Digestive Disease Week, May 2003, Orlando, Florida.)
  • Nguyen MH, Trinh HN, Garcia RT, Ning J, Keeffe EB. Evaluation and outcomes of combination therapy with interferon or pegylated interferon and ribavirin in a cohort of 67 Southeast Asian patients with hepatitis C genotypes 6, 7, 8, and 9 [Abstract]. Hepatology 2003;38:4(suppl. 1): 1014A.
  • Garcia RT, K.W. Adkisson, S.J. Rogers and J.P. Cello. Argon plasma coagulation for the treatment of gastric antral vascular ectasia. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2002;17(Suppl).
  • Garcia RT, K.W. Adkisson, S.J. Rogers and J.P. Cello. Argon plasma coagulation for the treatment of radiation proctopathy. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2002;17(Suppl).
  • Garcia RT, Cello JP, Rogers SJ, Rodas A, Nguyen MH, Trinh H, Stollman N, McQuaid KR. Unsedated ultrathin EGD is well accepted by most patients. A randomized trial of unsedated ultrathin EGD vs. sedated conventional EGD [Abstract]. Am J Gastroenterol 2002;97:S306.
  • Nguyen MH, Wright TL, Garcia RT, Mahmood G, Bacchetti P, Keeffe EB. Effects of ethnicity on risk for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in U.S. patients with hepatitis C cirrhosis [Abstract]. Hepatology 2002;36:688A.