Bradley A. Connor, M.D.
For those in Manhattan and the surrounding areas of New York, Bradley A. Connor, M.D., provides specialized care in gastroenterology and tropical medicine from a state-of-the-art facility in Midtown East. A world-renowned expert, Dr. Connor focuses on chronic gastrointestinal disorders in returned travelers, gastrointestinal infectious diseases, and emerging infectious diseases.
Dr. Connor specializes in microbial disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, including those related to the microbiome, antibiotic overuse, post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome (PI-IBS), small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), and Helicobacter pylori infection.
He serves as a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and an Attending Physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital – Cornell Campus. Dr. Connor is the founder and Medical Director of the New York Center for Travel and Tropical Medicine, a facility dedicated to patient care, teaching, and research in travel and tropical medicine. Additionally, he is the New York City Site Director for GeoSentinel, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Emerging Infectious Disease network.
With over thirty five years in private practice, Dr. Connor is also a founding member and former co-director of Carnegie Hill Endoscopy, an ambulatory endoscopy center where he provides colon cancer prevention through colonoscopy, as well as treatment for gastroesophageal reflux disease, peptic ulcer disease, Barrett’s esophagitis, and unexplained abdominal pain. He has extensive experience in clinical research, having conducted clinical trials in Kathmandu, Nepal, and Hanoi, Vietnam. Widely published in gastroenterology and travel medicine, he has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications and is the editor of Travel Medicine, the standard textbook in the field, now in its fourth edition.
A past president of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM), Dr. Connor has served as an advisor to the White House Medical Unit since 1999 and as an external consultant to the CDC’s Division of Quarantine and Global Migration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he was actively involved in testing and treating SARS-CoV-2 patients and advising major national and international corporations on pandemic response. He serves as a medical advisor to the U.S. Olympic Swim Team and has participated in the World Health Organization (WHO) Task Force on Travel Medicine and Malaria Prevention. Dr. Connor is a Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA-F) and the Infectious Disease Society of America (FIDSA) and has been awarded Fellowship in the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow) (FFTM, FRCPS).