Professor, Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Gastroenterology
Dr. Francis A. Farraye, MD
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Francis Farraye works in the field of Gastroenterology. He went to Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. He received awards:"America's Top Doctors", "Boston University Faculty Development Award", "Research Mentor of the Year", "Boston Magazine", "Top Doctor", "Boston University Faculty Development Award: Pocket MBA for Physicians", "Fellow (AGAF)", "Best of Boston, Gastroenterology", "William Carey Award", "Board of Governors Achievement Award", "Humanitarian of the Year", "Presidential Poster Award", "Ebert Fellowship", "Diamond Award", "Key Contribution Award", "Peer Recognition Award", "Alpha Omega Alpha", "Medical Student Research Fellowship", "Research Fellowship", "Scholarship", "Super Doctor", "Top MD" and "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Doctor Francis A. Farraye, MD is a published MD. He has 101 publications published. The most current publication "Host Immune Response to Clostridium difficile Infection in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients." He is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Understanding Health Literacy and its Impact on Delivering Care to Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
- Elective colectomy for severe Ulcerative colitis may reduce mortality more than medical therapy.
- The Tolerability and Efficacy of Rapid Infliximab Infusions in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
- Ulcerative Colitis: Update on Medical Management.
- Manifestations of inflammatory bowel Disease in patients of Haitian and Cape Verdean descent.
- Epidemiology of goblet cell and microvesicular hyperplastic polyps.
- Does a Personal or Family History of Malignancy Preclude the Use of Immunomodulators and Biologics in IBD.
- Vaccinating the inflammatory bowel Disease patient.
- Toward a Consensus on Endoscopic Surveillance of Patients with Colonic Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
- Elastic scattering spectroscopy as an optical marker of inflammatory bowel Disease activity and subtypes.
- Current and Future Status for Evaluation of Dysplasia and Carcinoma in IBD.
- Cost-effectiveness of Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer Screening in Crohn's Disease Patients.
- Environmental influences on the onset and clinical course of Crohn's Disease-part 2: infections and medication use.
- Pyostomatitis vegetans in a patient with fistulizing Crohn's Disease.
- Nocardia pneumonia in a patient with Crohn's Disease receiving 6-mercaptopurine and infliximab.
- Immunization Rates and Vaccine Beliefs Among Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: An Opportunity for Improvement.
- Environmental influences on the onset and clinical course of Crohn's Disease-part 1: an overview of external risk factors.
- Efficacy and Safety of Natalizumab in Crohn's Disease Patients Treated at 6 Boston Academic Hospitals.
- Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia in inflammatory bowel Disease: when should prophylaxis be considered?
- Endemic Fungal Infections in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Associated with Anti-TNF Antibody Therapy.
- Polypectomy is Adequate Treatment for Adenoma-like Dysplastic Lesions (DALMs) in Crohn's Disease.
- Duodenal infusion of stool is more effective than vancomycin in patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile.
- Increased risk of pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia among patients with inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Spontaneous colonic perforation in a patient with collagenous colitis.
- Is Pyloric Gland Metaplasia in Ileal Pouch Biopsies a Marker for Crohn's Disease?
- Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia in patients with inflammatory bowel Disease: a survey of prophylaxis patterns among gastroenterology providers.
- Gender and Location of CRC in IBD: Implications for Surveillance Protocols.
- Factors that Affect Adherence to Surveillance Colonoscopy in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
- B Cells Secrete Eotaxin-1 in Human Inflammatory Bowel Disease.
- Portal venous gas after colonoscopy in two patients with Crohn's Disease.
- Clostridium difficile Infection in the Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patient.
- Capillary hemangioma of the esophagus in a patient with Systemic sclerosis and gastric antral vascular ectasia.
- Health maintenance in the inflammatory bowel Disease patient.
- "Cat scratch" colon in a female patient after a difficult screening colonoscopy.
- Truncated neurokinin-1 receptor is increased in colonic epithelial cells from patients with colitis-associated Cancer.
- Doctor message can alter patients' behavior and attitudes regarding inflammatory bowel disease and colon Cancer.
- Clinical and pathological analysis of colonic Crohn's Disease, including a subgroup with ulcerative colitis-like features.
- Targeting mucosal healing in Crohn's Disease.
- Vaccinating the inflammatory bowel Disease patient: Deficiencies in gastroenterologists knowledge.
- Preoperative infliximab is not associated with an increased risk of short-term postoperative complications after restorative proctocolectomy and ileal pouch-anal anast...
- Crohn's Disease: the first visit.
- The clinical significance of serrated polyps.
- Toll-like receptor 2 induces mucosal homing receptor expression and IgA production by human B cells.
- Systemic Toll-like receptor ligands modify B-cell responses in human inflammatory bowel disease.
- Variation in the detection of serrated polyps in an average risk Colorectal cancer screening cohort.
- A 24-year-old patient with Crohn's Disease starting immunosuppressive therapy: vaccination issues to consider.
- A practical guide to vaccinating the inflammatory bowel Disease patient.
- AGA technical review on the diagnosis and management of Colorectal neoplasia in inflammatory bowel disease.
- Do 5-ASAs prevent Colorectal neoplasia in patients with ulcerative colitis? Still no answers.
- Hyperactivated B cells in human inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Diagnosis and management of dysplasia in patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's Disease of the colon.
- The "cecal patch" in patients with Ulcerative colitis.
- Alterations in the immunohistochemical expression of Das-1 and CG-3 in colonic mucosal biopsy specimens helps distinguish ulcerative colitis from Crohn Disease and fro...
- Hyperplastic/serrated polyposis in inflammatory bowel Disease: a case series of a previously undescribed entity.
- Irritable bowel Syndrome and hysterectomy: a sequence symmetry analysis.
- Variability in the diagnosis and management of adenoma-like and non-adenoma-like dysplasia-associated lesions or masses in inflammatory bowel Disease: an Internet-base...
- Can regular use of 5-ASAs protect against the development of dysplasia and Colorectal cancer in patients with ulcerative colitis?
- Incidence of IBS in a cohort of people with asthma.
- Clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of small apparently "de novo" Colorectal adenocarcinomas.
- Comparison of microsatellite instability, CpG island methylation phenotype, BRAF and KRAS status in serrated polyps and traditional adenomas indicates separate pathway...
- MRI of complicated pouchitis.
- Successful use of adalimumab (Humira) for Crohn's Disease in pregnancy.
- A phase 1/2A trial of STA 5326, an oral interleukin-12/23 inhibitor, in patients with active moderate to severe Crohn's Disease.
- Anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae antibodies are associated with the development of postoperative fistulas following ileal pouch-anal anastomosis.
- Obscure gastroIntestinal hemorrhage from mesenteric varices diagnosed by video capsule endoscopy.
- Chromoendoscopy: a new vision for colonoscopic surveillance in IBD.
- Mycophenolate mofetil-associated enterocolitis.
- Prognostic significance of superficial fissuring Ulceration in patients with severe "indeterminate" colitis.
- Prevalence and significance of prominent mucin pools in the esophagus post neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for Barrett's-associated adenocarcinoma.
- Flexible sigmoidoscopy for Colorectal cancer screening in the elderly.
- Pathologic features and clinical significance of "backwash" ileitis in Ulcerative colitis.
- Glomus tumor of the Gastric antrum: case report.
- Ampullary stenosis with Biliary obstruction in duodenal Crohn''s disease: a case report and review of the literature.
- Crohn's Disease after gastric bypass surgery for morbid obesity: is there an association?
- Prevalence and predictors of multiple behavioral risk factors for colon Cancer.
- Deficiencies in knowledge and familial risk communication among Colorectal adenoma patients.
- Endoscopy in the bariatric surgical patient.
- Gastroduodenal Crohn's Disease.
- Hyperplastic polyps, serrated adenomas, and the serrated polyp neoplasia pathway.
- BRAF and KRAS Mutations in hyperplastic polyps and serrated adenomas of the colorectum: relationship to histology and CpG island methylation status.
- Histologic predictors of pouchitis in patients with chronic Ulcerative colitis.
- Long-term follow-up after polypectomy treatment for adenoma-like dysplastic lesions in Ulcerative colitis.
- Screening flexible sigmoidoscopy using an upper endoscope is better tolerated by women.
- The clinical significance of right-sided colonic inflammation in patients with left-sided chronic Ulcerative colitis.
- Hyperplastic (serrated) polyps of the colorectum: relationship of CpG island methylator phenotype and K-ras mutation to location and histologic subtype.
- Sequential clinical and histopathological changes in collagenous and lymphocytic colitis over time.
- Age-related vulnerabilities of older adults with colon adenomas: evidence from Project Prevent.
- Barriers to endoscopic Colorectal cancer screening: are women different from men?
- Primary epiploic appendagitis: an underappreciated diagnosis. A case series and review of the literature.
- Pediatric patients with untreated Ulcerative colitis may present initially with unusual morphologic findings.
- Focal Intestinal lymphangiectasia.
- Endoscopic findings and their clinical correlations in patients with symptoms after Gastric bypass surgery.
- Chronic acid-related disorders are common and underinvestigated.
- Colchicine myopathy in a patient with familial Mediterranean fever and normal renal function.
- Successful closure of ileal pouch-vaginal fistulas with infliximab.
- Determinants of Colorectal cancer screening in women undergoing mammography.
- Management of neoplastic polyps in inflammatory bowel Disease.
- Female gender and other factors predictive of a limited screening flexible sigmoidoscopy examination for Colorectal cancer.
- Solitary versus multiple carcinoid tumors of the ileum: a clinical and pathologic review of 68 cases.
- Host Immune Response to Clostridium difficile Infection in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients.
Schools
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Beth Israel Harvard
Beth Israel Hospital Harvard
Procedures Preformed
- Colonoscopy, Proctosigmoidoscopy, and Sigmoidoscopy
- Endoscopy (Esophagus, Stomach, Small Intestine)
- Liver Biopsy
- Manometry
Conditions Treated
- Abdominal Pain
- Anemia
- Benign Neoplasm of the Digestive System
- Biliary Atresia
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Doctors Specialties
- Gastroenterology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- America's Top Doctors
- Boston University Faculty Development Award
- Research Mentor of the Year
- Boston Magazine
- Top Doctor
- Boston University Faculty Development Award: Pocket MBA for Physicians
- Fellow (AGAF)
- Best of Boston, Gastroenterology
- William Carey Award
- Board of Governors Achievement Award
- Humanitarian of the Year
- Presidential Poster Award
- Ebert Fellowship
- Diamond Award
- Key Contribution Award
- Peer Recognition Award
- Alpha Omega Alpha
- Medical Student Research Fellowship
- Research Fellowship
- Scholarship
- Super Doctor
- Top MD
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Education
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Harvard School of Public Health -
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center -
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University
Hospital
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Boston Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1427035286 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | FARRAYE | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | FRANCIS | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 021182905 | |
| NPPES Provider State | MA | |
| Specialty Description | Gastroenterology | |
| Total Claim Count | 486.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1427035286 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | FARRAYE |
| First Name Of The Provider | FRANCIS |
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