Leadership
Scott Summers, PhD
Chair, Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology
The major accomplishment of my scientific career has been to advance the idea that sphingolipids such as ceramides regulate nutrient homeostasis and contribute to diabetes and other metabolic diseases. The opinion was initially controversial and few publications other than my own appeared on the topic. Nonetheless, the data were robust and the ther... Read More
Email: scott.a.summers@health.utah.edu
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Jared P. Rutter, PhD
Jared Rutter, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Utah and a member of the Nuclear Control of Cell Growth and Differentiation Program at Huntsman Cancer Institute.Rutter studies how cells sense and detect energy needs for growth. Understanding the energy-sensing pathways in cells is important in cancer researc... Read More
Research Interests: Cell Communication, Cell Signaling, Metabolism, Metabolism Regulation
Email: Rutter@biochem.utah.edu
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Angela Fagerlin, PhD
Chair, Department of Population Health Sciences
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Research Interests: Developing and Testing of Decision Aids in Clinical Contexts, Particularly their Impact on Patient Decision Making and Patient-Physician Communication, Examining the Role of Living Wills and Surrogate Decision-Making at the End of Life, Factors that Affect People’s Perception of Risks, Investigating the Effect of Numeracy Skills on Medical Decision Making, Testing Methods for Improving Risk Communication
Email: angie.fagerlin@hsc.utah.edu
Contact Us
Bridget Hughes, PhD
Director, Research Program Development
Senior Vice President of Health Sciences, Research Unit
Phone: 801-585-9304
Email: bridget.hughes@hsc.utah.edu
Sara Salmon, MA
Programs Manager
Senior Vice President of Health Sciences, Research Unit
Phone: 801-839-5414
Email: sara.salmon@hsc.utah.edu
