Burt, Randall W, M.D.

Dr Burt received his medical degree from the University of Utah in 1974. Dr Burt completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Washington University and Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. Dr Burt completed a fellowship in gastroenterology at the University of Utah School of Medicine in 1979. Dr Burt is professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and holds the D. Keith Barnes, MD, and Ida May "Dotty" Barnes, RN, Presidential Endowed Chair in Medicine. In 1987, a group led by Dr Burt and Ray White, PhD, discovered the chromosomal location of the gene for a dangerous inherited colon cancer syndrome called familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). Extensive use of the Utah Population Data Base is used in these investigations to precisely determine colon cancer risk in families without one of the known interited syndromes. An important outcome of this research is that genetic testing soon became available to identify persons with the inherited syndrome. Dr Burt is director of the Familial Colon Cancer Clinic and co-director of the Family Cancer Assessment Clinic at the Jon M. Huntsman Cancer Institute. Dr Burt is Emeritus Professor of Internal Medicine.