Dr. David Poppers is Clinical Professor of Medicine at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Director of GI Quality and Strategic Initiatives at the NYU Preston Robert Tisch Center for Men’s Health and Joan Tisch Center for Women’s Health at NYU Langone Health in New York. He served as founding director of the Interventional Endoscopy Fellowship Program at NYU Langone. He serves on the Quality Improvement Committee, the Institutional Review Board Committee, among other roles at NYU.
Dr. Poppers is particularly interested in enhancing quality in healthcare delivery, and in evaluating and utilizing novel diagnostic and therapeutic technologies - lecturing and publishing on topics in these and other areas.
Dr. Poppers received his medical and research training at New York University School of Medicine (MD, PhD). He completed his internal medicine internship and residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, followed by additional specialized training in advanced/interventional endoscopy at Lenox Hill Hospital.
A recent NEJM publication concluded that although colonoscopy is widely used as a dependable screening test to detect colorectal cancer, its overall effect on the risks of colorectal cancer death is potentially less clear than previously reported. The doubt sprouting from this study is misplaced, dangerous and will potentially lead to more deaths from this disease.