JeffreyM.KopitaMDFACP, FCCP

Asthma & COPD, Pleural Disease, Thoracic Oncology

Clinical Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine Medical Director, Outpatient General Pulmonology, Baylor Scott and White Baylor University Medical Center

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Office
3600 Gaston Ave
Ste 960
Dallas, TX 75246
Phone+1 214-820-5630

Fax+1 214-820-9818

Summary

Dr. Jeffrey Kopita is a pulmonologist in Dallas, TX and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Baylor Scott & White Heart & Vascular Hospital-Dallas, Baylor Scott & White Institute for Rehabilitation - Dallas, and Baylor University Medical Center. He received his medical degree from University of Toledo College of Medicine and has been in practice 28 years. He specializes in asthma & copd, pleural disease, and sleep medicine and is experienced in bronchoscopy, critical care medicine, complicated pregnancies, general pulmonology, and hospice and palliatice care.

Education & Training

Duke University HospitalFellowship, Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, 1992 - 1995
Duke University HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 1990 - 1992
Duke University HospitalInternship, Internal Medicine, 1989 - 1990
The University of Toledo College of MedicineClass of 1989, MD
Vanderbilt UniversityBA, General Biology, Summa cum laude, 1980 - 1984

Certifications & Licensure

TX State Medical License 1995 - 2026
NC State Medical License 1991 - 2003
American Board of Internal Medicine Hospice and Palliative Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Pulmonary Disease

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

D Magazine Best Doctors 2019-2023
Fellow (FACP) American College of Physicians, 2001
Fellow American College of Chest Physicians, 1997
Mitochondrial Myopathy Presenting in an Adult as Chronic Respiratory Failure and Lactic Acidosis American College of Physicians, 1993
Lemon Outstanding Medical Student Award 1989
Medical College of Ohio Anatomy Award 1989
Medical College of Ohio Physiology Award 1989
American College of Physicians Award 1989
Marion C. Anderson Award in Surgery 1989
Alpha Omega Alpha 1988
Academy of Medicine of Toledo and Lucas County Scholarship 1988
Phi Beta Kappa 1984
Alpha Lambda Delta, Phi Eta Sigma 1980
National Honor Society of Secondary Schools 1979
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

11 citations
Magnetic sphincter augmentation is an effective treatment for atypical symptoms caused by gastroesophageal reflux disease
Marc A. Ward, Ahmed Ebrahim, Jeffrey Kopita, Lindsay Arviso, Gerald O. Ogola
Surgical Endoscopy. 2020-11-01
7 citations
Cat germs! Pleuropulmonary pasteurella infection in an old man.
Jeffrey M. Kopita, D Handshoe, Peter S. Kussin, M Kelemen
North Carolina Medical Journal. 1993-07-01
50 citations
Cost-effectiveness of Collecting Routine Cytologic Specimens During Fiberoptic Bronchoscopy for Endoscopically Visible Lung Tumor
Joseph A. Govert, Jeffrey M. Kopita, David B. Matchar, Peter S. Kussin, Wayne M. Samuelson
Chest. 1996-02-01

Journal Articles

Lack of Correlation Between dNORs and Down Syndrome.
Kopita J, Rutherford T, Tayel A, Cummins T, Kurczynski TW, McCorquodale MM, American Journal of Human Genetics
Unusual Translocation in Patient with Probably CML, 46XX, t(X;20) (q13;q23).
Reed K, Guyton K, Kopita J, Klever T, McCorquodale MM, American Journal of Human Genetics
Endobronchial Irradiation and Hyperbaric Oxygen in Recurrent Lung Cancer.
DeRuyter DN, Kopita JM, Piantadosi CA, Anscher M, Halperin E, Kussin PS, American Review of Respiratory Disease
Outcome of Laparoscoptic Nissen Fundoplication for Asthma associated with Refractory Gastroesophageal Reflux: Evidence for Clinical Benefit at One Year Follow-up.
Alexander R, Kopita J, Kussin I, Pappas T, Brazer S, Kussin P, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Thoracic Empyema: Twenty Year Retrospective Analysis of Clinical Characteristics, Microbiology, and Outcome.
Kopita J, Samuelson W, Kussin P, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Yield of Brushing and Endobronchial Lavage in the Diagnosis of Endobronchial Malignancy.
Kopita JM, Franklin BJ, Kussin PS, Samuelson WM, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
Repeat Bronchoscopy in the Diagnosis of Lung Cancer.
Samuelson WM, Kopita JM, Franklin BJ, Chest
Mitochondrial Myopathy with Anemia, Cardiomyopathy, and Lactic Acidosis: A Distinct Late Onset Mitochondrial Disorder.
Van Hove JLK, Shanske S, Ciacci F, Ballinger S, Shoffner JS, Wallace DC, Hanioka T, Folkers K, Bossen EH, Kussin PS, Kopita JM, Kahler SG, American Journal of Medical Genetics
Structural Chromosome Abnormalities, Polymorphisms and Aneuploidy in Recurrent Aborters.
McCorquodale MM, Cummins T, Kopita JM, Moll J, Infertility
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