Physician - ERCP

Conway, SC 29526

Specialty ERCP
Profession Physician

  • Joining CMC Cancer Center (Employed with Physicians Network Services):
    • Robert Yacavone, MD - ERCP and general
    • Robert Kodsi, M.D. - ERCP and general
    • Vivek Choksi, MD - general 
    • Meghan Malone, MD - EUS
    • Kairvee Dave, MD - general
    • Melissa Hare, AGNP
    • Cassie Floyd, FNP-C
    • Robin Niederwerfer, NP
  • 50/50 split on clinic lab & Endoscopy
  • CMC - Endoscopy Area
    • Renovated the area in 2022
    • Currently 4 procedure rooms and 8 holding rooms (pre and post operative area)
    • Scopes - Olympus 180 and 190 series (HD scopes)
    • C-Arm is available in the department
    • Colonoscopies are done with Propofol and anesthesia support
      • All of our procedures are done with propofol in our unit, but if the doctor travels to ICU to do a procedure where anesthesia is not there, then they would do that procedure with conscious sedation
  • 8 day call 1 & 4;
  • Consultation Services only for IP
  • No tech specifics are required
  • 5 MDs & 2 NP in the clinic now, 1 NP day each day
  • 3+ weeks wait time
  • 5K cases
    • 500 IP / 4500 OP
    • Procedure volume
  • Relationship w/ Duke equates to the vision of retaining GI cancer cases in network/clinic
  • 2.5 clinic / 2.5 Lab
    • Patients Per day: Clinic     / Lab