Medical Advisory 2018-03-09T19:18:40+00:00

Our Medical Advisory Consultants

Amenity Health’s Medical Advisory consultants include accomplished doctors and leaders of gastrointestinal research within their respective institutions, who advise on:

  • areas of focus upon which Amenity Health products are clinically tried and evaluated;
  • long-range strategy for product development and GERD research;
  • proposals for new research areas and technics; and
  • other matters concerning research and performance on which the Board seeks counsel.

Amenity Health prides itself on the caliber of its advisory consultants. Their collective GERD expertise and industry knowledge are invaluable to us as we strive to make products practical, comfortable, and effective.

Ronnie Fass, MD

Dr. Ronnie Fass is the Director of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Head of the Esophageal and Swallowing Center at the Metro Health Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio. He is also a tenured Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. Dr. Fass did his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, where he later became a Chief Resident. He then completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of California in Los Angeles where he focused on GI motility and functional bowel disorders.

Dr. Fass has received many awards for his research, including the American Gastroenterological Association Award for Digestive Sciences in Clinical Research, the VA hospital Investigator of the Year Award, and the International Foundation of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders Senior Clinical Investigator Award.

Dr. Fass is a frequent lecturer, presenter, and reviewer for more than 70 journals. He is on the editorial board of 28 journals. Dr. Fass has published more than 550 articles, editorials, commentaries, and abstracts in journals such as Gastroenterology, Gut, American Family Physician, American Journal of Gastroenterology, and Archives of Internal Medicine.

Donald Castell, MD

Dr. Donald Castell has been a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and the Director of the Esophageal Disorders Program at the Medical University of South Carolina since October 2001.

Dr. Castell is a graduate of the George Washington University School of Medicine and served as a Medical Officer in the U.S. Navy from 1959-1979. Before retiring with the rank of captain, he spent his last four years of active service as Chairman of Medicine at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. He has held faculty positions at George Washington University School of Medicine, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC, and Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA.

From April 1992 through September 2001, he was the Kimbel Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia, PA and Professor of Medicine. Dr. Castell was President of the American Gastroenterological Association from 1998-1999.

Dr. Castell is internationally recognized as a leading authority on diseases of the esophagus and esophageal function and has authored or co-authored more than 500 scientific publications. He is also the editor and principal contributor of The Esophagus, the primary text on this subject, a definitive 714-page text published by Little, Brown, and Company, which is currently in its fourth edition.