Daniel E Freedberg, MD
Locations and Appointments
CUIMC/Herbert Irving Pavilion
CUIMC/Presbyterian Hospital and Vanderbilt Clinic
Insurances Accepted
Please contact the doctor's office to verify that your insurance is accepted.
- AETNA
- Affinity Health Plan
- Amerigroup of New Jersey
- Amida Care
- CIGNA
- Emblem/GHI
- Emblem/Hip
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthplus
- Fidelis Care
- Healthfirst
- Local 1199
- Magnacare (National)
- Medicare
- Multiplan
- MVP Health Care
- Quality Health Management
- RiverSpring
- UnitedHealthcare
- VNSNY CHOICE
- WellCare
- World Trade Center Health Plan
About Daniel E Freedberg, MD
Dr. Freedberg graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed his residency and fellowship training at Columbia University. He received a Master's degree in biostatistics from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Freedberg's research focuses on the use of acid suppression medications, Clostridium difficile infection, and the gastrointestinal microbiome. Current projects include studies of how acid suppression medications alter the colonic microbiome and of how alterations in the gastrointestinal flora predispose patients to Clostridium difficile and other infections during periods of critical illness. His research is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the American Gastroenterological Association.
Dr. Freedberg is a clinical and translational investigator focused on the relationship between the gastrointestinal microbiome and infections, both enteric and non-enteric. He is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and the Mailman School of Public Health and trained in medicine and gastroenterology at Columbia University Medical Center. He is the past recipient of an American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) Research Scholar Award and has received funding from the NIH/NIDDK, Irving Institute (Columbia's CTSA), and the Department of Defense. His work has been published in leading journals across disciplines: Gastroenterology, Clinical Infectious Disease, Intensive Care Medicine, JAMA Internal Medicine, and Nature. Currently, he focuses on the gastrointestinal microbiome in the intensive care unit (ICU). He has built large ICU cohorts containing longitudinal clinical data, serial rectal swabs, other biosamples, and clinical outcomes data. These samples and data have been collected to understand the dynamic changes that take place within the gastrointestinal microbiome during critical illness and to ask how these changes may impact risk for ICU-acquired infections. His past studies in this area show the importance of colonizing pathogens such as C. difficile and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) as determinants not only of the patient's own health but of outcomes for patients who share the same hospital environment. Ongoing research tests interventions seeking to improve the resistance of the native gut microbiota against pathogens, with a goal of preventing colonization and downstream infection in the ICU.
Board Certifications
- Gastroenterology
- Internal Medicine
Expertise
Barrett's Esophagus
Celiac Disease
Clostridioides Difficile (C. diff) Colitis
Colon Cancer
Colon Cancer Screening
Colonoscopy
Crohn's Disease
Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome (CVS)
Digestive System Disorder
Eosinophilic Esophagitis
Esophageal Disease
Esophageal Motility Disorder
Esophageal Stricture
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT)
Gastric Outlet Obstruction
Gastrointestinal Cancer
Gastrointestinal Disease
Gastrointestinal Motility
General Gastroenterology
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Positive Cologuard
Virtual Colonoscopy
Zenker's Diverticulum
Education
Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
Titles & Positions
Assistant Professor Medicine and Epidemiology
Hospital Affiliations
NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester
Education
- Residency: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
- Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
- Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Titles & Positions
- Assistant Professor Medicine and Epidemiology
Board Certifications
- Gastroenterology
- Internal Medicine