August 29, 2022
West Columbia, S.C. – Lexington Medical Center is pleased to welcome David M. Kopel, MD, to the hospital’s network of care at Southeastern Neurology and Memory Clinic. Dr. Kopel joins the board-certified physicians, advanced practice providers and highly skilled staff at the practice. They provide comprehensive care in the evaluation, monitoring, prevention and treatment of cognitive and general neurologic disorders, such as nervous system inflammatory diseases, Alzheimer’s disease, early and late onset dementia, Parkinson’s disease and affective disorders.
Dr. Kopel graduated summa cum laude as a Coronat scholar from Syracuse University in New York with a bachelor’s degree in biological and medical physics and earned his medical degree from Rutgers University New Jersey Medical School in Newark. He then completed a neurology residency at Boston University Medical Center in Massachusetts and a headache medicine fellowship at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, Dr. Kopel is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Headache Society. He is also fluent in English and Russian. In addition to providing general neurologic care, Dr. Kopel specializes in treating patients with headache-related issues, including tension headache to migraine, cervicogenic headache, cluster headache and secondary headache after a surgery or traumatic brain injury, among other conditions. He also provides patients with procedural treatments, such as nerve blocks, trigger point injections and Botox®.
Dr. Kopel is accepting new patients.
Southeastern Neurology and Memory Clinic
Lexington Medical Park 2
146 East Hospital Drive, Suite 120A
West Columbia, SC 29169
803-936-7076
Lexington Medical Center is a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It anchors a health care network that includes five community medical centers and employs a staff of more than 8,000 health care professionals. The hospital is ranked best hospital in the Columbia Metro and #2 hospital in South Carolina by U.S. News & World Report and was named one of the “Best Places to Work in South Carolina” by SC Biz News, in partnership with the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce and Best Companies Group. Lexington Medical Cancer Center is an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence and has a clinical research and education affiliation with MUSC Hollings Cancer Center. The network includes a cardiovascular program recognized by the American College of Cardiology as South Carolina's first HeartCARE Center. The network also has an occupational health center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, an Alzheimer's care center and more than 70 physician practices. Lexington Medical Center operates one of the busiest Emergency departments in South Carolina, treating nearly 100,000 patients each year. The hospital delivers more than 4,000 babies each year and performs more than 25,000 surgeries. Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies.
