Rolando J. Leal, M.D.
Practice Location
1324 Wolf Park Drive
Germantown, TN 38138
(901) 755-9110
(901) 755-4321 (Fax)
Personal Note
My wife is an attorney and social worker, and we have two children. I enjoy spending my time off with my family. I like to run, bicycle and scuba dive.
Education and Training
A graduate of Villanova University, Dr. Leal attended medical school at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara in Jalisco, Mexico, where he graduated in 1985. Dr. Leal did a transitional year in medicine from 1985-1986 at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Staten Island, and the New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY. From 1986 to 1989, he completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at the Tucson Medical Center in Tucson, AZ. After his residency, he spent four years in California, completing two fellowships (hepatology 1989-1991; gastroenterology, 1991-1993) at the University of Southern California School of Medicine. During his hepatology fellowship, he also did rotational training in orthotopic liver transplantation at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). In 1993, he moved to Memphis, where he practiced gastroenterology and hepatology at Baptist Memorial Hospital and St. Joseph Hospital before joining the Gastroenterology Center of the MidSouth, now Gastro One, in 1997.
Dr. Leal was certified by the Foreign Medical Graduate examination in the medical sciences in 1985, and by the Federal Licensure Examination in 1987. He has been board certified in internal medicine since 1993, and in gastroenterology since 1997.
Teaching Appointments
1989-1993 Clinical Instructor, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1994-Present Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN
1996-Present Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN
Professional Memberships
Fellow of the American College of Physicians
Fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology
Fellow of the American Gastroenterological Association
Memphis Medical Society
Tennessee Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy-current president.
Tennessee Medical Association
Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America