About Daniel Castresana, MD

Dr. Castresana is a native to Macon, Georgia.  He graduated with honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology where he received a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering.  After completing a master’s degree in manufacturing management from Pennsylvania State University’s College of Business and Engineering, he received a medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia. He completed is residency at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine/Jackson Memorial Health Systems, and a fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque.  While serving as assistant professor there, he completed a subspecialty fellowship in advanced therapeutic endoscopy and received the Distinguished Young Faculty Award.  He went on to serve as an assistant professor of gastroenterology and advanced therapeutic endoscopy at Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland.  More recently over the last 4 years, he expanded and developed the therapeutic endoscopy service lines at two different private GI practices.  Dr. Castresana treats patients with both benign and malignant gastrointestinal disease.  He specializes in interventional endoscopic therapies for complex esophageal, gastric, bariatric, colonic and pancreaticobiliary diseases.  This often allows patients to avoid surgery.  He performs EGD, colonoscopy, enteral stenting, endoscopic mucosal & submucosal resection techniques, endoscopic suturing, endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS).   He is eager and passionate about building a third space endoscopy program and an advanced endoscopy GI fellowship at the Wellstar Medical College of Georgia.  Dr. Castresana speaks English and Spanish.  He is accepting new patients and he looks forward to providing tertiary endoscopy care for the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA).