Curt Hagedorn, MD, is the Cartwright Endowed Professor of Medicine and chief of gastroenterology in
the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He is an investigator and clinician at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) and member of the Gastrointestinal Cancers Program.His clinical specialty is the early diagnosis and treatment of liver diseases, which include many that result in
liver cancer, His research interests include chronic hepatitis C and the early diagnosis and biology of epithelial
cancers. He and his research team colleagues have developed new technologies to study RNA regulation in these disease
states.
Hagedorn received his medical degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri in 1976, and completed
internship and residency in internal medicine at Vanderbilt University Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. In addition, he
has completed fellowships in medical science at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health and
in gastroenterology at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri.
Before joining Huntsman Cancer Institute, he was director of gastroenterology/ hepatology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, in Kansas City, Kansas, and also served as associate director of the clinical research center at the University of Kansas Hospital. In 2006, he was elected "Top Doctors" in the greater Kansas City area by
Ingram’s Magazine. Dr. Hagedorn was a faculty member and Cancer Center member at Emory University for 11 years where he
also served as the director of hepatology.
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