Associate Professor, Chair
Department of Colorectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland, OH, United States
David Liska, MD is the Chair of the Department of Colorectal Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. He holds the James Church, MD, and Edward J. DeBartolo, Jr. Family Endowed Chair in Colorectal Surgery and is Associate Professor of Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. He serves as the Director of the Sanford R. Weiss, MD Center for Hereditary Colorectal Neoplasia and the Cleveland Clinic DeBartolo Center for Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer. His clinical practice specializes in the minimally invasive treatment of hereditary and sporadic colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, and other benign colorectal conditions. His research interests include hereditary and young-onset colorectal cancer and optimizing surgical outcomes through the implementation of enhanced recovery pathways. His laboratory studies the biology of rectal cancer response to therapy with the goal of developing novel therapeutics that can overcome treatment resistance. Dr. Liska earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Johns Hopkins University, his medical degree at Yale University and completed his general surgery training at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill-Cornell Medical Center. He completed a colorectal cancer research fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering and a clinical fellowship in colorectal surgery at the Cleveland Clinic.
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