Scott Kuwada, MD, is an associate professor of medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He is a member of Huntsman Cancer Institute’s Familial Colorectal Cancer Clinic, and sees patients with hereditary colorectal cancer syndromes, as well as those with nonhereditary forms of colon cancer.

His research primarily focuses on the roles of the epidermal growth factor family in colon cancer therapy. Drugs used in breast and lung cancer treatment already target members of this family because they are important to cancer cell growth, survival, and metastasis. Epidermal growth factor receptors are commonly overexpressed in colon cancers, and thus may be relevant targets for its treatment as well.

Kuwada received his medical degree from the University of Hawaii and completed a residency in internal medicine, as well as a fellowship in gastroenterology, at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He is currently the program director of the Gastroenterology Fellowship Training Program at the University of Utah School of Medicine.