Section Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Scripps Mercy Hospital and a 2013 graduate of the Scripps Clinic / Scripps Green Hospital GI fellowship, Andrew B. Cummins, MD operates from 4060 Fourth Ave, Suite 240 in Hillcrest. His Hillcrest office is the clinic arm of San Diego Gastroenterology, where procedural cases are scheduled through the San Diego Endoscopy Center for screening colonoscopy, upper endoscopy, capsule endoscopy, and advanced interventional endoscopic techniques. Dr. Cummins earned his medical degree from the Robert Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont (2006) and completed internal medicine residency at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, and he sees patients in English and Spanish. Patients with surgically correctable findings such as gallbladder disease, complex hernias, or resectable GI tumors identified on endoscopy are handed off to general and specialty surgeons like those at Surgical Specialists Of San Diego for the operative portion of the care plan. The most technically demanding workups involve advanced interventional endoscopy for biliary obstruction, pancreatic pseudocysts, and therapeutic ERCP, where stent placement and stricture dilation require the combined endoscopy-and-fluoroscopy suite at the Scripps Mercy campus.