Dr. Varela practices in our Hamden and Milford offices. He is affiliated with Endoscopy Center of Connecticut, Yale New Haven Hospital (Yale & St. Raphael Campus) as well as Bridgeport Hospital - Milford Campus.
OFFICE LOCATIONS
- Practices in Hamden
- Practices in Milford
SUBSPECIALTIES
- Constipation
- Diseases of a Small Bowel *
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease *
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- Ischemic Diseases of the Intestine *
- Liver Disorders/Hepatitis *
- Reflux / Barret's Esophagus /GERD *
*special interest
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
- Spanish
Dr. Varela is a native of Puerto Rico who attended Harvard University for his undergraduate training, graduating Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Biology and a language citation in French. He then moved to Manhattan where he received his Medical Doctorate from Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University. From there, he remained in New York, completing his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Following his residency, Dr. Varela joined the Montefiore Medical Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York where he completed his fellowship in Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
Dr. Varela joined GCC in 2017 and his special interests include disorders of the small bowel, liver and biliary tract diseases, acid related diseases of the stomach, infections of the small and large bowel, ischemic diseases of the gut and inflammatory bowel disease.
EDUCATION
- Doctor of Medicine, 2011, Weill Cornell Medical College
- Bachelor of Arts in Biology (Cum Laude), 2006, Harvard University
BOARD CERTIFICATIONS
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American Board of Internal Medicine, 2014
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING
- Gastroenterology Fellow, Gastroenterology, 2014-2017, Montefiore Medical Center
- Residency in Internal Medicine, 2011-2014, Mount Sinai Hospital
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
- American Gastroenterological Association
- American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
- New York Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
