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Department
Medicine
Area(s) of Practice Specialty
Advanced Endoscopy, Complex EUS/ERCP, Endoscopic Full Thickness Resection, ESD, Gastroenterology, POEM
Hospital Employed
Yes
Medical School
Columbia University
Residency
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Fellowship
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Board Certification
American Board of Internal Medicine - Gastroenterology
Accepted Insurance
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Accepting New Patients
Yes
Biography
Dr. Stavropoulos earned his bachelor’s in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry at Yale summa cum laude and medical degree with AOA distinction at Columbia where he also completed all his training including a advanced endoscopy fellowship. He served as Director of Endoscopic Ultrasound at Columbia for 6 years and as Director of Endoscopy and of the Program in Advanced Endoscopy at NYU-Long Island (Winthrop) for 14 years.
He is now leading the Endoscopic Surgery & 3rd space endoscopy program at Mount Sinai South Nassau hospital. Dr. Stavropoulos is an expert in
EUS & ERCP, but has gained international recognition for his pioneering work in treating
achalasia with the
POEM procedure. He was the first gastroenterologist in the world to perform a POEM procedure in 2009 (just months after Japanese thoracic surgeon H. Inoue), and has performed over 1,000 esophageal POEMs. He has published the largest and most comprehensive POEM series by any US operator to date with exceptional long-term outcomes. He has continued to innovate, recently publishing an improved POEM technique that minimizes reflux.
Dr. Stavropoulos has also been a US pioneer in
ESD, for non-invasive en bloc removal of complex polyps & early cancers (first ESD cases in the US in 2005 with recent publication of the largest Western single-operator ESD series). He also pioneered
EFTR/STER for non-invasive endoscopic resection of mesenchymal GI tumors such as GISTs, (first cases in the US in 2012; largest US series). Dr. Stavropoulos is a fellow of the ASGE and AGA, member of SAGES, and one of a small number of international endoscopists with honorary fellowship to the Japanese Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
(FJGES), one of the oldest and most revered endoscopy societies in the world.