Get to know Colorectal Surgeon Dr. Walter E. Longo, who serves patients in New Haven, Connecticut.

A dual board-certified and fellowship-trained colorectal surgeon, Dr. Longo serves as the Chief of Colon and Rectal Surgery at Yale Medicine. He cares for patients who are 19 and older, using surgical and nonsurgical approaches to treat problems ranging from hemorrhoids to Crohn’s disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and ulcerative colitis, as well as anal, colon, and rectal cancers. Colorectal care has changed dramatically with the use of minimally invasive surgery, as well as chemotherapy, radiation, and biologic medicines. More research is focused on better drug delivery for treating inflammatory bowel disease and less invasive surgical techniques for all afflictions. “For a lot of problems that were chronic and sometimes ending in mortality, we are now improving survival and quality of life. In some cases, surgeons can take more conservative approaches to treating conditions for which surgery used to be the only solution” said Dr. Longo.