Massachusetts General Hospital

Biography

Associate Director, Interventional Endoscopy

David G. Forcione, MD is the Associate Director of Interventional Endoscopy at Massachusetts General Hospital and Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is interested in the diagnosis and treatment of Barrett's esophagus, early gastrointestinal malignancies, and disease of the pancreas and bile ducts.

PublicationsKaraca C, Turner B, Forcione,DG, Brugge W. The Accuracy of EUS in the Evaluation of Small Gastric Subepithelial Lesions. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 71(4),722-727. 2010 Apr 17.

Telford JJ, Carr-Locke DL, Baron T, Poneros JM, Bounds BC, Kelsey PB, Schapiro RH, Huang, CS, Lichtensetin DR, Jacobson BC, Saltzman JR, Thompson CC, Forcione DG, Gostout CJ, Brugge WR. A randomized trial comparing uncovered and partially covered self-expandable metal stents in the palliation of distal malignant biliary obstruction. Gastrointestinal Endoscopy 72(5) 2010 Nov. 18.

Genevay M, Mino-Kenudson M, Yaeger KA, Konstantinidis I, Ferrone C, Thayer S, Fernandez-del Castillo C, Sahani D, Bounds B, Forcione DG, Brugge WR, Pitman MB. Cytology Adds Value to Imaging Studies for Risk Assessment of Malignancy in Pancreatic Mucinous Cysts. Annals of Surgery (in press) 2011.

Shaw AT, Forcione DG, Digumarthy SR, Iafrate AJ Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 21-2011. A 31-year-old man with ALK-positive adenocarcinoma of the lung. N Engl J Med. 365(2):158-67, 2011 Jul 14.

Puli SR, Bechtold ML, Pamulaparthy SR, Marshall SJ, Cashman M, Forcione DG Diagnostic Accuracy of EUS in Detecting Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review (submitted for publication) 

Karaca C, Turner B, Forcione DG, Brugge, WR. EUS of Duplication Cysts (submitted for publication)

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