David Blumberg, MD
- Primary Specialties: Colorectal Surgery, General Surgery
About David
Dr. Blumberg is a board-certified general and colorectal surgeon. He graduated from SUNY-Downstate Medical School in 1988. He completed a clinical research fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute in 1994 and his general surgery residency in Maimonides Medical Center in 1996. He spent the next two years in a clinical fellowship in general surgical oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and in 1999 completed a colorectal surgery fellowship at the Ochsner Clinic. Dr. Blumberg was an Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) from 1999-2005 when he entered private practice remaining at UPMC until 2014. From 2014 to the present, he has been a system-wide Chief of Colorectal Surgery and a Director for a Rectal Cancer Program, Robotics Program and Enhanced Recovery Program after Surgery. Since 2016, Dr. Blumberg has been a member of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery rectal cancer committee which has reshaped the surgical standards for rectal cancer treatment in the United States today.
Some of the services Dr. David Blumberg provides include:
- Colon & Rectal Cancer
- Laparoscopic & Robotic Surgery
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Diverticulitis
- Anorectal Disease (hemorrhoids, abscess, fistula, bleeding)
- Gallbladder Disease
- Colon & Rectal Polyps
- Crohn’s Disease
- Rectal Prolapse
- Advanced Colonoscopy
- Inguinal/Ventral Hernia