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Stavros Stavropoulos, MD, AGAF, FASGE, FGJES, NYSGEF

Stavropoulos, Stavros, MD, AGAF, FASGE, FGJES, NYSGEF

Primary Location

Mount Sinai South Nassau Center for Digestive Health
2750 Merrick Road
Bellmore, NY 11710
(516) 992-5626
(516) 665-9960

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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.