Dr. Liliana Bordeianou
Liliana Bordeianou, MD, MPH is a board-certified colorectal surgeon and the co-director of the Pelvic Floor Disorders Service at Massachusetts General Hospital. She is also an assistant professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Bordeianou specializes in treating patients with Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, diverticulitis, and colon and rectal cancer -- all with special emphasis on minimally invasive procedures such as laparoscopy and endoscopy, and on sphincter preservation techniques. She is also an expert in the surgical management of pelvic floor disorders such as fecal incontinence, rectal prolapse and constipation.
In 2006, Dr. Bordeianou co-founded Mass General’s Pelvic Floor Disorders Service, which offers minimally invasive, surgical and non-surgical treatment options for the full range of pelvic floor disorders. She also pioneered transanal endoscopic microsurgery -- a minimally invasive procedure that treats colonoscopically unresectable rectal polyps and early rectal cancer without any abdominal incisions .
Dr. Bordeianou has published extensively in academic research journals on colorectal surgery. She lectures both locally and internationally on invited topics including ulcerattive and Crohn's colitis, rectal cancer, diverticulitis and pelvic floor disorders.
In addition, she is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS), a fellow of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (FASCRS), and a member of numerous other surgical societies including the International Society University Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ISUCRS), Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract (SSAT), Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) and The New England Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (NESCS).