Professor David Lieberman, MD, is Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon and the Portland VA Medical Center. He 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 and the Director of the Clinical Outcomes Research Initiative (CORI), which is supported by NIH since 1999. The project has created a national endoscopic data repository for research, with more than 30 peer-reviewed publications to date. In 2001-2002, Professor Lieberman was President of the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy which has a membership of 8,000. In 2006, he was inducted into the Association of American Physicians and received the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation Laurel for Leadership a year later. He is currently the Secretary General for International Digestive Cancers Alliance (IDCA), an international organization focused on the prevention and treatment of gastrointestinal cancers. Professor Lieberman received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Michigan. |