David Lieberman

David Lieberman MD, is Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology at Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon and the Portland VA Medical Center. Dr. Lieberman is internationally recognized as an expert on colon cancer screening. He is Chairman for VA Cooperative Study # 380, which utilized colonoscopy to screen asymptomatic subjects.  Significant findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine (2000, 2001, 2005), JAMA (2003) in Annals of Internal Medicine (2005) and Gastroenterology (2007).  He is the Director of the Clinical Outcomes Research Initiative (CORI), supported by NIH since 1999.  The project has created a national endoscopic data repository for research, with more than 50 peer-reviewed publications to date, including papers in JAMA, Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.  From 2006 to 2008, Dr. Lieberman served as a member of the National Commission on Digestive Diseases.  Dr. Lieberman is the Chairman of the Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer, and authored new colon cancer screening recommendations in 2008. Dr. Lieberman was President of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) in 2001-2002.  He serves as Secretary General for International Digestive Cancers Alliance (IDCA), an international organization focused on the prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal cancers.

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