Specialty	Colon and Rectal Surgery/Proctology
Clinical Interests	Surgery, Colon & Rectal
	Surgery, General
	Abdominal Drainage
	Colectomy
	Crohn's Disease
	Fistula
	Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
	Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
	Rectal Cancer
	Surgery, Abdominal
	Surgery, Gall bladder
	Surgery, Gastrointestinal
	Ulcerative Colitis
Languages	English
	French
	Spanish
Gender	Male
E-mail	adrian.greenstein@mountsinai.org
Education and Training	MD, Witwatersand University
	Residency, Surgery, Johannesburg General Hosp
	Residency, Surgery, Boston University Hospital

Adrian Greenstein is a Fellow of the Royal Colleges of England and Edinburgh in addition to the American College of Surgeons. He trained in Surgery in South Africa, the United Kingdom, Boston and New York before starting a surgical practice at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York where he is Professor of Surgery.

His surgical practice and research has been mainly devoted to Inflammatory Bowel Disease Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative colitis. He specializes in complex ulcerative colitis with Total Proctocolectomy and construction of Pelvic Pouch with Ileoanal anastomosis; and complex fistulizing and obstructing Crohn's disease.

Apart from his extensive surgical experience over a period of more than 30 years, he has contributed over 140 manuscripts to the peer reviewed journals of the medical literature of which the majority have been on Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

He continues to practice, and teach surgery at Mount Sinai school of Medicine.

Education and Training	MD, Witwatersand University
	Residency, Surgery, Johannesburg General Hosp
	Residency, Surgery, Boston University Hospital

Specialty	Colon and Rectal Surgery/Proctology
Clinical Interests	Surgery, Colon & Rectal
	Surgery, General
	Abdominal Drainage
	Colectomy
	Crohn's Disease
	Fistula
	Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
	Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
	Rectal Cancer
	Surgery, Abdominal
	Surgery, Gall bladder
	Surgery, Gastrointestinal
	Ulcerative Colitis
Languages	English
	French
	Spanish

Heimann T, Kurtz R, Greenstein A, Slater G, Priven N, Rhee S. Significance of delayed healing of ileoanal anastomosis in patients with ulcerative colitis. Am J Gastroenterol 1998; 93: 1689-1692.

Heimann TM, Greenstein AJ, Lewis B, Kaufman D, Heimann DM, Aufses Jr AH. Comparison of primary and reoperative surgery in patients with Crohn's disease. Ann Surg 1998; 227: 492-495.

Greenstein AJ, Kessler . Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Severe Colitis and its complications. Acta Endoscopica 1999; 29: 15-21.

Greenstein AJ, Kessler . Inflammatory bowel diseases: Severe colitis and its complications. Acta Endoscopica 1999; 29(3): 221-242.

Green S, Stock RG, Greenstein AJ. Rectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease: Natural history and implications for radiation therapy. Int J Rad Oncology 1999; 44: 835-840.

Greenstein AJ. Cancer in Inflammatory Bowel disease. Mt Sinai J Med 2000; 67: 227-240.

Almogy G, Sachar DB, Bodian CA, Greenstein AJ. Surgery for Ulcerative Colitis in Elderly Persons: Changes in Indications for Surgery and Outcome over time. Arch Surg 2001; 136: 1396-1400.

Almogy G, Greenstein AJ, Sachar DB. Simultaneous ulcerative colitis and TTP: a complex problem in the management of IBD. J Clin Gastroent 2001; 32: 248-250.

Dave SP, Greenstein AJ, Sachar DB, Aledort L. Bleeding Diathesis in Amyloidosis with Renal Insufficiency Associated with Crohn's Disease: Response to Desmopressin. Am J Gastroenterology 2002; 97(1): 187-189.

Fichera A, Cicchiello LA, Mendelson DS, Greenstein AJ, Heimann TM. Superior Mesenteric Vein Thrombosis After Colectomy For Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A not uncommon cause of postoperative pain. Dis Colon Rectum 2003; 46: 643-648.