Pictured left to right: Nicole Schaldone, MS, RD; Jeffrey Hartford, M.D. and Gregory Lesser, M.D., MSPH.
Hunterdon Medical Center is pleased to announce that Advanced Gastroenterology & Nutrition is a newly owned specialty practice of Hunterdon Healthcare. Advanced Gastroenterology & Nutrition has two offices, one located in the Hunterdon Doctor's Office Building on the campus of Hunterdon Medical Center at 1100 Wescott Drive, Suite 201 in Flemington, and one at 75 Frontage Rd. in Perryville. The practice provides a full spectrum of care in the field of digestive disorders and liver disorders. Advanced Gastroenterology and Nutrition offers patients a full array of consultative as well as diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic services including colon cancer screening, diagnosis and treatment of reflux disease, breath testing for maldigestion and malabsorption, capsule endoscopy, as well as food sensitivity testing.
Advanced Gastroenterology & Nutrition has two Gastroenterologists, Jeffrey Hartford, M.D. and Gregory Lesser, M.D. Nicole Schaldone, MS, RD, a registered dietitian, focuses her scope of practice on gastrointestinal nutrition.
Jeffrey Hartford, M.D., has been a physician at Hunterdon Medical Center for nearly 20 years. An undergraduate degree at Colgate University was followed by medical school at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, where he graduated with honors. Dr. Hartford completed his Gastroenterology Fellowship training at the Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami in Florida. Dr. Hartford is board
certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. Dr. Hartford is
the Director of the Endoscopy Unit at Hunterdon Medical Center and has served on national advisory panels for the treatment of Hepatitis C. He has also authored chapters on Acute Pancreatitis and the effects of Diabetes on the gastrointestinal tract for medical journals.
Gregory Lesser, M.D., MSPH, received his medical degree from The American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in St. Maarten.
He received a Masters in Public Health from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Lesser completed his residency in Internal Medicine and his Fellowship in Gastroenterology at Cooper University Hospital / Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Camden, New Jersey.
Dr Lesser has co-authored several journal articles on sedation monitoring during endoscopic procedures as well as a chapter on colon cancer in a book titled Gastrointestinal Health. Dr. Lesser is board certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology.
Nicole Schaldone, MS, RD, received her Bachelors degree in Nutrition and Food Science from the University of Vermont and her Masters in Nutrition from West Virginia University. She is one of eight dietitians in the state of New Jersey to receive specialty board certification in oncology nutrition. Ms. Schaldone provides dietary assessments and nutritional consults to patients primarily with digestive related nutritional disorders including, irritable bowel syndrome, gastroesophageal reflux, celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and food sensitivities.
For more information, contact:
Hunterdon Medical Center
2100 Wescott Drive
Flemington, NJ 08822