Joseph C. Carmichael, MD

• Colorectal Disease Services
• Gastrointestinal Cancer Services
• Digestive Disease Services
• Robotic Oncology Services
• Minimally Invasive Surgery Services
• Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Services
• Surgery Services

• American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Colon and Rectal Surgery
• American Board of Surgery, Surgery

• English

• Professor — Department of Surgery
• Chief — Division of Colon & Rectal Surgery
• Interim Chief Medical Officer — UCI Health
• Fellow — American College of Surgeons
• Fellow — American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons
• Member — Clinical Robotics Surgery Association

• Best Doctors in America® (Colon and Rectal Surgery), 2013, 2015, 2016
• William S. Cheney, MD, Surgical Resident Award, 2005
• Golden Scalpel Resident Award, 2002
• University of Missouri Medical School Scholarship, 1997-2001
• Dalton Research Fellowship Award, 1998
• Haggar Foundation Scholarship, 1993-1997
• Tulane Founder's Scholarship, 1993-1997
• Physicians of Excellence, Orange County Medical Association — 2017-2022

Dr. Joseph C. Carmichael is a board-certified UCI Health colorectal surgeon who specializes in laparoscopic and robot-assisted surgical approaches to treating diseases of the colon and rectum.

Carmichael started the first robot-assisted rectal surgery program in the state of Missouri and went on to perform the first robot-assisted rectal cancer resection in Orange County after joining UC Irvine Medical Center. His clinical and research interests include the multidisciplinary approach to the treatment of recurrent or advanced colon and rectal cancer, complex problems in inflammatory bowel disease, pelvic floor disorders and anorectal disease.

He is a member of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery and participates in numerous national committees.

Carmichael earned his medical degree at the University of Missouri School of Medicine in Columbia, Mo. He completed an internship and residency in general surgery at the UC Irvine School of Medicine, followed by a fellowship in colon and rectal surgery in Chicago at the Cook County Hospital and University of Illinois, Chicago Medical Center.

He sees patients at the UCI Health H.H. Chao Comprehensive Digestive Disease Center and UCI Health Surgery Services in Orange, and at UCI Health Gottschalk Medical Plaza in Irvine.

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Speakers Bureau Topics

• Anorectal Disease: Outpatient Treatment, a Primary Care Perspective
• Anorectal Fistula: Current Treatment
• Colon and Rectal Cancer: Laparoscopic Surgery
• Colon and Rectal Cancer: Robotic Surgery
• Colon and Rectal Cancer Update
• Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis: New Surgical Treatments
• Diverticulitis Update
• Ischemic Colitis
• Large Bowel Obstruction: Management Options
• Rectal Cancer: Robotic Surgical Management
• Rectal Prolapse, Treatment Options