Dr. Stephen Joel Heller, MD

I am pleased to join the staff of Fox Chase as a gastroenterologist and therapeutic endoscopist. I look forward to contributing to a faculty and medical center with remarkable focus and dedication. It is exciting to join an institution with a clear vision of its mission and a desire for growth. My previous position was at the Lahey Clinic outside of Boston, where I practiced for nine years and held a number of administrative roles including fellowship training director in gastroenterology. In my work at a general hospital I found the care of patients with cancer most rewarding. I got considerable satisfaction from assisting patients in coping with the challenge of their diagnosis, and when possible, I valued the chance to help patients with cancer live longer, better lives.As therapeutic endoscopists, we also have the ability to intervene in precancerous conditions and early cancers, thereby preventing cancer from taking hold. At Fox Chase, with our unique patient population, access …to state of the art technology, and the support and expertise of my colleagues, there will be ample opportunity to do so — for example in patients with premalignant disease of the esophagus, large polyps of the colon and rectum, and early tumors of the stomach.Although technology is a vital part of what we do, there is nothing more important in the practice of medicine than the human interaction between clinician and patient, and I look forward to the opportunity to serve our patients, who deserve the very best that medicine has to offer.