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Licking Memorial Endoscopy and Gastroenterology (GI Lab)
Licking Memorial Hospital
1320 West Main Street
Newark, Ohio 43055
Licking Memorial Hospital - Tamarack
2000 Tamarack Road
Newark, Ohio 43055
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. (M-F)
Phone: (220) 564-2950
After Hours Hospital Operator: (220) 564-4000
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The Licking Memorial Hospital (LMH) Endoscopy Department incorporates diagnostic and therapeutic procedures provided to inpatients, outpatients and Emergency Department patients, in adults. Licking Memorial Health Professionals gastroenterologists (GI), with the assistance of specially trained nurses and scrub technicians, perform colonoscopies, gastroscopies, flexible sigmoidoscopies and other special GI procedures on patients with various acute and chronic disorders.
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Ezana N. Bekele, M.D., received his medical degree from St. George’s University College of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies.  He completed an internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship at New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.  He is board certified in internal medicine.
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Alyssa D. Drosdak, M.D., received her medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and completed an internal medicine residency at Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals.  She also completed a gastroenterology fellowship at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.  She is board certified in internal medicine.
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Estaban Grovas Cordovi, M.D., received his medical degree from the Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine in Bayamón, Puerto Rico.  He completed an internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship at the Veterans Affairs Caribbean Healthcare System in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Dr. Grovas Cordovi is board certified in internal medicine.
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Zeyn T. Mirza, M.D., received his medical degree from Universidad Central Del Caribe School of Medicine in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.  He completed an internal medicine residency and a gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship at the Veterans Affairs Caribbean Healthcare System in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  Dr. Mirza is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology, and is bilingual in English and Spanish.
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Kari M. Vance, APRN-CNP, earned her Bachelor of Science in nursing degree from Ohio University in Athens and a Master of Science in nursing degree from Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio.  She is certified by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.
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