Dr. Carlos Vargas is a top-rated gastroenterologist providing state-of-the-art care for patients in and around Miami, FL. At GastroMed’s location on North Kendall Drive, Dr. Vargas offers the most advanced procedures including endoscopy, enteroscopy, colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy to diagnose and manage treatment of an array of gastrointestinal diseases and disorders, including abdominal pain, rectal bleeding, blood in the stools, hemorrhoids, GERD, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), constipation, diarrhea, pancreatitis, fatty liver, hepatitis and other types of liver disease, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, colon polyps and colon cancer.After earning his medical degree at Universidad de Antioquia in Colombia, Dr. Vargas completed a visiting fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology at Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami School of Medicine, an internship and residency in internal medicine at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Puerto Rico, followed by a fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine and a fellowship in hepatology at Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami School of Medicine. Board-certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology, Dr. Vargas has been widely published and has been a frequent lecturer and presenter at medical conferences. He welcomes the opportunity to care for patients throughout the Miami region, and the practice accepts most major medical insurance plans.