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David E. Fleischer, MD, FACG

Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Scottsdale, AZ

David Fleischer, MD, FACG, is currently a staff physician at Mayo Clinic Arizona and a Professor of Medicine at College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic. He graduated from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He did his residency at Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital/Case Western Reserve University and at Wellington Hospital in New Zealand. He completed his GI Fellowship at Harbor General UCLA. He served in the United Sates Army at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He was on the staff at the VA Medical Center in Washington, D.C.; the Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Georgetown University (where he was a Professor of Medicine); and Mayo Clinic Arizona (where he served as Chair of the Division of Gastroenterology until 2006). He is a member of ASGE (for which he served as President), AGA, and ACG. He is also an honorary member of the Swiss Gastroenterology Society and Italian Gastroenterology Society. Dr. Fleischer has been given the Schindler Award by the ASGE, its highest honor. He was an invited lecturer for the Society. He is a Master in the American College of Physicians, and he served as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in the United States Senate. He has published more than 250 original articles and edited several books. He has lectured throughout the United States and internationally and has spoken on all seven continents, most recently in Antarctica. His main interests are innovations in endoscopy, esophageal cancer, and Barrett's esophagus. He has been involved in projects for screening, prevention, and treatment of esophageal cancer in China, Iran, South Africa, and Kenya. Dr. Fleischer is married to Karen Samuel and they have three children - Ruben, Lucas, and Mara. He enjoys golf, hiking, hat collecting, writing low doggerel poetry, making scrapbooks, playing ladder golf, and both Country and Western music. He appeared as Bus Rider #4 in the movie 30 Minutes or Less, and as Photographer #2 in Gangster Squad directed by his son, Ruben, who also directed Zombieland.

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