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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 2013

Jitesh A. Patel, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery
  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Assn for Acad Surg
  • Am Soc of Col& Rec Surg
  • Assoc of Prog Dir in Surg
  • Assoc of Prog Directors for Colon and Rectal Surg

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Academic medical center

Colon-Rectal Surgery

University of Kentucky

Department of Surgery

800 Rose Street

Lexington, KY 40536

United States

Contact Information

Biography

Colon and Rectal Cancer - Laparoscopic colectomy and proctectomy - Sphincter-sparing surgery for low rectal cancer - Treatment for recurrent colon and rectal cancer - Colonoscopy, polypectomy, colonic stents placement - Endorectal Ultrasound Pelvic Floor diseases - Fecal incontinence [Anal mannometry, ERUS, Sphincteroplasty] - Rectal prolapse - Constipation - Rectocele Inflammatory Bowel Disease - Treatment of Crohn’s disease and Ulcerative colitis - Laparoscopic and open IPAA (J Pouch surgery) for Ulcerative colitis Benign colorectal disease - Diverticulitis - Benign colorectal polyps (Colonoscopy with laparoscopic assistance) - Management of complex stomas - enterocutaneous and colocutaneous fistulae Benign Anorectal diseases - Hemorrhoids, fissures, fistula in ano, recto-urethral fistula, rectovaginal fistula Anal Cancer

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Anorectal Disease

  • anal abscess
  • anal fissure
  • anal fistula
  • Anorectal Disease
  • colonoscopy
  • hemorrhoid problems
  • hemorrhoidal banding
  • prolapsing hemorroids
  • rectal bleeding
  • rectal prolapse
  • recto-vaginal fistula
  • sphincter repair
  • sphincter sparing surgery

Colon and Rectal Disorder/Procedures

  • colectomy
  • Colon and Rectal Disorder/Procedures
  • colon polyps
  • colon surgery
  • colonoscopy
  • colostomy
  • diverticular disease
  • diverticulitis
  • flexible sigmoidoscopy
  • ileostomy
  • intussusception
  • laparoscopic colon surgery
  • Meckel's diverticulum
  • peritonitis
  • removal of colon polyps
  • surgery for diverticulitis

Colon and Rectal Cancer/Tumors

  • anal cancer
  • Colon and Rectal Cancer/Tumors
  • colon cancer screening
  • colon surgery
  • colon/rectal cancer
  • colonic polyps
  • colostomy
  • diverticular disease
  • ileostomy
  • intussusception
  • laparoscopic colon surgery
  • Meckel's diverticulum

Gastrointestinal

  • peritonitis

Vaginal-Rectal Disorders/procedures

  • rectovaginal fistula

Diagnostic Imaging/procedures

  • colonoscopy
  • endoscopy
  • flexible sigmoidoscopy
  • minimal access surgery
  • sigmoidoscopy

Bowel Control

  • bowel incontinence
  • constipation
  • incontinence, fecal

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

  • Crohn's disease
  • ulcerative colitis

Minimal Invasive/Endoscopic Procedures

  • colon/rectal cancer screening
  • colonoscopic polypectomy
  • colonoscopy
  • colonscopy
  • flexible sigmoidoscopy
  • laparoscopic surgery for colon and recta
  • Local excision
  • Minimal Invasive/Endoscopic Procedures
  • minimally invasive surgery
  • Procedure for prolapsing hemorrhoids
  • Trans anal Endoscopic Microsurgery
  • Trans anal Endoscopic Surgery
  • Trans anal Minimally Invasive Surgery

Diagnostic Imaging/procedures

Hospital Appointments

University of Kentucky Medical Center

Lexington, KY,

Attending

07/2014—Present

Lexington Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Lexington, KY,

Attending

07/2014—Present

Academic Appointments

University of Arizona College of Medicine

Tucson, AZ

Assistant Professor

10/2011—07/2014

University of Kentucky College of Medicine

Lexington, KY

Assistant Professor

07/2014—06/2016

University of Kentucky College of Medicine

Lexington, KY

Associate Professor

07/2016—06/2021

University of Kentucky College of Medicine

Lexington, KY

Professor

07/2021—Present