Sheryl A. Pfeil, MD Associate Professor, Clinical Internal Medicine Fellowship Program Director N210 Doan Office Tower 395 W. 12th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 (614) 293-4262

Sheryl A. Pfeil is Associate Professor, Clinical Internal Medicine atThe Ohio State University in the Division of Digestive Health, Department of Internal Medicine.  She is the Program Director for the Gastroenterology Fellowship Training Program, the Course Director of the Introduction to Clinical Medicine General Clerkship for medical students,Co-Leader of the Gastroenterology Block and Module Leader for the Med 1/2 Integrated Pathway Program, the Education Coordinator for Med 3 and Councillor for Alpha Omega Alpha, the medical honor society. She provides clinical services both at Ohio State University Medical Center and Stoneridge Outpatient Endoscopy and Clinic.

Bio

Dr. Pfeil received her BA (magna cum laude) from Miami University,

Oxford, Ohio in 1980 and her MD from the Ohio State University College

of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio, in 1984. She completed her residency

program in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Gastroenterology at the

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Pfeil is board

certified in both Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. She has been

on the faculty at OSU since 1990. Dr. Pfeil has been Director

of the Fellowship Program since 1998. She is a member of the American

College of Physicians, American Gastroenterological Association,

American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and American College of

Gastroenterology. She received the Distinguished Educator Award from the

OSU College of Medicine in 2001 for outstanding teaching and curriculum

development. She was the recipient of the 2002 Ohio Medical Education

Network Best Team Award (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and she served as a

national spokesperson for The American Gastroenterological Association's

Nighttime Heartburn Relief Effort.

 Dr. Pfeil's academic interests include medical student education and

she participates as a faculty facilitator for the physician development

course, The Healer's Art, to promote physician health and well being

while demonstrating compassionate and humanistic care, combining both

the art and the science of medicine, and upholding the ideals of the

medical profession.

From the standpoint of educational research, Dr. Pfeil is participating

in a multidisciplinary effort to study the benefit of simulator training

translated to improved skill and performance of actual colonoscopic

procedures during the initial phase of procedural training. Dr. Pfeil

continuously seeks innovative teaching strategies and worked with the

Clinical Skills Center and other departments to evaluate and

subsequently purchase the endoscopic simulator equipment to enhance

fellow procedural training. The system provides both a non-patient based

training opportunity, as well as specific user feedback related to

technical performance measures and adequacy of examination. Her other

research interests include gender-specific medicine and gender

preference in physician selection.

Dr. Pfeil's clinical interests include women's health issues in

gastroenterology, celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, colon

cancer screening, and gastroesophageal reflux disease.