Dr. Camille Torbey had a goal from about age 12 to become a physician, but faced one significant hurdle—War was raging at the time in his hometown of Beirut, Lebanon.
“I just had to study through that and not let it affect me, but it was challenging,” he said. That background helps him appreciate the opportunity to practice a medical specialty and raise a family in a small, quiet and safe community like Marshfield.
“I was always interested in doing procedures,” he said. “Gastroenterology offered a good balance of talking to my patients and doing procedures such as colonoscopies.”
Dr. Torbey earned his medical degree at the American University of Beirut, then came to the United States for an internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics in Madison. He completed fellowship training in gastroenterology at Wisconsin, and a fellowship in esophageal motor disorders at Cleveland Clinic Health System. He has a special interest in esophageal health issues such as Barrett’s esophagus, a pre-cancerous condition that can be treated via endoscopy.
He is married to Dr. Rana Nasser, an infectious disease specialist at Marshfield Medical Center (medical offices). They have three children.