Christopher Teshima, MD MSc PhD FRCP(C)

Therapeutic Endoscopy, St. Michael’s Hospital
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Jeffrey Mosko, MD, MSc, FRCP(C)

Therapeutic Endoscopy, St. Michael’s Hospital
Assistant Professor, Division of Gastroenterology

Sunday, April 3, 2022

8:35 am - 9:35 am

Innovations in Therapeutic Endoscopy (Interactive Session)

Dr. Teshima is a member of the Therapeutic Endoscopy group at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Canada and Co-director of the Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship training program. His clinical interests focus on therapeutic endoscopy procedures, including endoscopic treatments (ESD, EMR and RFA) for upper GI neoplasia including Barrett’s esophagus and early esophageal and gastric cancer, POEM for achalasia, endoscopic treatment of Zenker’s diverticulum, diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), endoscopic resection (EMR and ESD) of large colonic polyps, as well as small bowel endoscopy including double balloon enteroscopy and capsule endoscopy.

He graduated from medical school at the University of Toronto in 2003, and then completed residency training in Internal Medicine in Toronto followed by Gastroenterology residency at the University of Alberta, where he also did a research fellowship leading to a Masters degree in Clinical Epidemiology. He then pursued an Advanced Endoscopy Fellowship at Erasmus MC University Medical Centre in The Netherlands in 2009 and 2010, where he also obtained a PhD. He joined the Division of Gastroenterology as an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta in 2010, prior to moving to Toronto to join the Therapeutic Endoscopy group at St Michael’s Hospital, and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, in 2015.

Dr. Jeffrey Mosko graduated with a BSc and then MD from the University of Western Ontario. He completed his internal medicine and general gastroenterology training at the University of Toronto. He completed his fellowship training in advanced endoscopy at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and has been on staff at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto since that time. He completed an MSc in Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the University of Toronto. He serves as a director of the advanced endoscopy fellowship and the education site director. His clinical expertise is in both luminal and pancreaticobiliary advanced endoscopy.