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Justin Kelly, MD, FRCS

Justin Kelly, MD, FRCS

Colorectal Surgery Specialist

Digestive Health and Surgery

Overview

Justin Kelly, MD, FRCS, is a fellowship-trained colon and rectal surgeon with AdventHealth Medical Group’s elite colorectal surgery team in Central Florida. His areas of expertise include the use of minimally invasive technologies in colon and rectal cancer treatment, including TAMIS and laparoscopic surgery. He specializes in the surgical treatment of both Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, and is proficient in treating all common anorectal diseases including hemorrhoids, fistulas and rectal bleeding. After completing his medical degree with honors and receiving university national medals in surgery from the College of Surgeons in Dublin, Ireland, he became the first International Fellow in colon and rectal surgery at AdventHealth Medical Group, allowing him to be comprehensively trained on the groundbreaking surgical techniques pioneered by our esteemed specialists.

Articles

Unusual presentation of a neuroendocrine tumor in the ileostomy specimen after rectal cancer treatment: case report

TRANSLATIONAL CANCER RESEARCH

2023

Transanal minimally invasive surgery (TAMIS) for rectal cancer

SEMINARS IN COLON AND RECTAL SURGERY

2022

Achieving Opioid-Free Major Colorectal Surgery: Is It Possible?

DIGESTIVE SURGERY

2020

Defining the learning curve for transanal total mesorectal excision for rectal adenocarcinoma

SURGICAL ENDOSCOPY AND OTHER INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES

2020

Medial-to-Lateral Approach to the Laparoscopic Low Anterior Resection

DISEASES OF THE COLON & RECTUM

2020

Transanal minimally invasive surgery for rectal cancer

ANNALS OF GASTROENTEROLOGICAL SURGERY

2020

Impact of residual nodal involvement after complete tumor response in patients undergoing neoadjuvant (chemo)radiotherapy for rectal cancer

SURGERY

2019

Minimally invasive surgery for stage III colon adenocarcinoma is associated with less delay to initiation of adjuvant systemic therapy and improved survival

SURGICAL ENDOSCOPY AND OTHER INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES

2019

Lower survival after right-sided versus left-sided colon cancers: Is an extended lymphadenectomy the answer?

SURGICAL ONCOLOGY-OXFORD

2018

Establishing the learning curve of transanal minimally invasive surgery for local excision of rectal neoplasms

SURGICAL ENDOSCOPY AND OTHER INTERVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES

2018

Education & Training

Education

Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin Ireland

Fellowship

AdventHealth Medical Group, Orlando, FL

Specialty

Colon and Rectal Surgery