Genetics and Genomics Grand Rounds
When
Where
Health Sciences Innovation Building, Room 880
1670 E. Drachman St., Tucson, AZ 85719
Telephone: 602-753-0140 | Meeting ID: 836 4868 6758
Presenter Details
N. Jewel J. Samadder, MD, MSc
Professor, Gastroenterology
Mayo Clinic
Samadder is a professor and consultant in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine and a joint appointment in Clinical Genomics at the Mayo Clinic in Arizona. He is the vice chair of the Department of Medicine and is also the enterprise co-director for Individualized/Precision Medicine for the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center and associate medical director of the Department of Development. Samadder received his medical degree from the University of Toronto where he also completed his internal medicine residency. He then completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of of Michigan and an advanced endoscopy fellowship at the Mayo Clinic. During his gastroenterology fellowship, he also completed his master’s in health care research at the UM Medical School. His clinical interests focus on the diagnosis and management of patients with inherited forms of cancers, most notably those with gastrointestinal cancer syndromes such as Lynch Syndrome and Familial Adenomatous Polyposis. He has been an author of national and international guidelines for the management of patients with familial colon cancers and has led several multi-center clinical trials for the prevention of cancer in patients with FAP.
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