From staff reports
Dr. D. Eli Penn, a dual board-certified, fellowship-trained gastroenterologist with a wide range of experience and endoscopic skills, has joined Beaufort Memorial Lowcountry Medical Group Specialty Care. Penn will see patients at the practice’s Beaufort and Okatie locations.
Penn specializes not only in the management of general GI disorders, but also in advanced endoscopic therapies. He has a particular interest in detection and management of poorly recognized conditions that tend to present with GI symptoms, among them chronic pancreatitis and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.
The Kentucky native came to Beaufort Memorial from Macon, Ga., where since 2019 he had practiced at the Medical Center of Central Georgia/Atrium Heath Navicent, and held a faculty appointment at Mercer University School of Medicine.
Penn is a frequent speaker on topics that include chronic pancreatitis and inflammatory bowel disease, and also proctors other gastroenterologists as they learn to perform the TIF procedure, most recently at the University of Florida. He has published in multiple peer-reviewed journals and serves on the Professionalism Committee at the American College of Gastroenterology. Past leadership roles have included director of Endoscopy and vice chair of the Board of Trustees at East Georgia Regional Medical Center in Statesboro.
Penn received his medical degree at Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. During his internal medicine residency there he won awards for teaching and research. He completed a gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
“With the addition of Dr. Penn to our gastroenterology practice, we are continuing our efforts to increase access to GI services for residents both north and south of the Broad River,” Beaufort Memorial President and CEO Russell Baxley said in a release. “We are fortunate to add a physician of Dr. Penn’s caliber to our medical staff. He brings both technical skill and concern for patients to our team.”
