
Edward Lung, MD

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- Position
- ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR | Medicine, Gastroenterology
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- Specialty
- Gastroenterology
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- Language
- English
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- Hospital Affiliations
- Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West
- The Mount Sinai Hospital
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- Phone
- Mount Sinai Doctors Gastroenterology & Liver Assoc 212-523-5900 212-523-5900
Edward Lung, MD, MPH is the Director of Endoscopy for the Division of Gastroenterology at Mount Sinai West/ Mount Sinai Morningside, Director of Advanced Endoscopy at Mount Sinai West/ Mount Sinai Morningside, and previously served as the Associate Program Director of the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Fellowship Training Program. Dr. Lung is an Associate Professor of Medicine and serves as an officer of the Medical Board. He is a member of the Pancreatic Cancer Multidisciplinary Clinic at Mount Sinai. Dr. Lung received his undergraduate degree from New York University, where he graduated with honors in Biology. He received his medical degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Dr. Lung completed residency training in Internal Medicine at NYU Medical Center and served as Chief Medical Resident. He then completed his fellowship training in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of California, San Francisco, where he also served as Chief Fellow. He then received a Masters in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Lung was a faculty member and advanced endoscopist at UCSF in the Division of Gastroenterology before returning to New York.
Dr. Lung’s clinical interests are in diseases and cancers of the esophagus, stomach, pancreas, biliary tract, and colon. He performs advanced endoscopic procedures, including endoscopic ultrasound (EUS), endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP), cholangioscopy, endoscopic submucosal resection and dissection, endoluminal stent placement, complex polypectomy, and endoscopic bariatric therapies.
Certification
Gastroenterology
Clinical Focus
- Barrett's Esophagus
- Chronic Pancreatitis
- Colon Cancer Screening
- Colon Polyps
- Colonoscopy
- Colorectal Cancer
- Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography
- Endoscopic Ultrasonography
- Esophageal Cancer
- Esophageal Stricture
- Gallstones
- Gastroenterology
- Pancreatitis
- Stomach Cancer
- Upper GI Endoscopy
Education
MD, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Residency, Internal Medicine
NYU Medical Center
Fellowship, Gastroenterology
University of California (San Francisco)
Language
English
Honors • 2004 Academic Skills Workshop Participant, American Gastroenterological Association • 2003 Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation Fellowship Award • 2001 American College of Gastroenterology Clinical Research Award • 1992 NIH Summer Student Fellowship • 1990 Horace W. Stunkard Prize, New York University • 1986-1990 College of Arts and Science Scholar, New York University • 1986-1990 Dean’s Fellow, New York University
New topic
1. Pancreatic Cancer
2. Esophageal Cancer
3. Colon Cancer
4. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
5. Therapeutic Endoscopy
5. ERCP
7. EUS
8. Enteral Stenting
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