Daniel Ellis, M.D.

Internal Medicine - Digestive and Liver Diseases
Interventional Endoscopic Ultrasound
Pancreaticobiliary diseases

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Biography

Daniel James Ellis, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He specializes in interventional endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), pancreaticobiliary disorders, and therapeutic endoscopy.

Dr. Ellis earned his medical degree at McGill University in Quebec, Canada. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and a gastroenterology fellowship at the Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, followed by a fellowship in advanced endoscopy at UT Southwestern.

Certified in gastroenterology and internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Ellis joined the UT Southwestern faculty in 2022.

Dr. Ellis’s research interests include endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), interventional endoscopic ultrasound, and pancreaticobiliary disease. He has presented widely and published numerous articles and case reports in peer-reviewed journals related to his areas of interest.

Dr. Ellis is a member of the American College of Gastroenterology and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

Personal Note

In his spare time, Dr. Ellis enjoys spending time with his family, reading, cooking, playing chess, and hockey.

Education & Training

Fellowship - Oschner Clinic Foundation (2018-2021), Gastroenterology
Residency - University of Massachusetts Medical School/UMass Memorial Health Care (2015-2018), Internal Medicine
Medical School - McGill University Faculty of Medicine (2010-2014)

Professional Associations & Affiliations

American College of Gastroenterology
American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Honors & Awards

Everyone is a Caregiver 2017, Nominated as an exceptional caregiver as part of the Everyone, Everyday campaign.
Caregiver Certificate 2017, Nominated to receive a caregiver certificate from hospital administration.

Books & Publications

Publications
- Palliation of Malignant Dysphagia: Dilation, Stents, Cryoablation or PDT: The GI Perspective.
  Ellis, Daniel J., Nisa M. Kubiliun, and Anna Tavakkoli Foregut: The Journal of The American Foregut Society 2022 2 2 186-191
- Pleural Effusions Following Liver Transplantation: A Single-Center Experience.
  Lui JK, Spaho L, Hakimian S, Devine M, Bui R, Touray S, Holzwanger E, Patel B, Ellis D, Fridlyand S, Ogunsua AA, Mahboub P, Daly JS, Bozorgzadeh A, Kopec SE, Journal of intensive care medicine 2021 Aug 36 8 862-872
- Trainee participation during screening colonoscopy does not affect ADR at subsequent surveillance, but may result in early follow-up.
  Eckardt AJ, Kheder J, Basil A, Silverstein T, Patel K, Mahmoud M, Al-Azzawi Y, Ellis D, Gillespie W, Carrasquillo Vega Y, Person SD, Levey JM, Endoscopy international open 2020 Dec 8 12 E1732-E1740
- dGEMRIC and CECT Comparison of Cationic and Anionic Contrast Agents in Cadaveric Human Metacarpal Cartilage.
  Freedman JD, Ellis DJ, Lusic H, Varma G, Grant AK, Lakin BA, Snyder BD, Grinstaff MW, Journal of orthopaedic research : official publication of the Orthopaedic Research Society 2020 04 38 4 719-725
- Contrast-enhanced CT facilitates rapid, non-destructive assessment of cartilage and bone properties of the human metacarpal.
  Lakin BA, Ellis DJ, Shelofsky JS, Freedman JD, Grinstaff MW, Snyder BD, Osteoarthritis and cartilage 2015 Dec 23 12 2158-2166
- Islet Neogenesis Associated Protein (INGAP) induces the differentiation of an adult human pancreatic ductal cell line into insulin-expressing cells through stepwise activation of key transcription factors for embryonic beta cell development.
  Assouline-Thomas B, Ellis D, Petropavlovskaia M, Makhlin J, Ding J, Rosenberg L, Differentiation; research in biological diversity 2015 Nov-Dec 90 4-5 77-90
- The Relationship between Preoperative Expectations and the Short-Term Postoperative Satisfaction and Functional Outcome in Lumbar Spine Surgery: A Systematic Review.
  Ellis DJ, Mallozzi SS, Mathews JE, Moss IL, Ouellet JA, Jarzem P, Weber MH, Global spine journal 2015 Oct 5 5 436-52

Research

Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
Interventional endoscopic ultrasound
Pancreaticobiliary disease

Clinical Focus

Interventional Endoscopic Ultrasound
Pancreaticobiliary diseases
Therapeutic endoscopy