Marcelo Kugelmas, M.D., FAASLD, FACP
in Denver

About Marcelo Kugelmas M.D., FAASLD, FACP

Dr. Marcelo Kugelmas received his medical degree with honors from the University of Buenos Aires. After completing his internship and internal medicine residency at the University of Southern California-Los Angeles County Hospital in Los Angeles, he moved to Cleveland where he completed his gastroenterology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and served as Chief Fellow in 1995. He then moved to Lexington, Kentucky where he pursued further training in hepatology, liver transplantation and advanced endoscopy at the University of Kentucky. Dr. Kugelmas remained there until 2000 as an assistant professor. He then moved to Colorado, where he joined the University of Colorado, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology section. He became an associate professor of medicine before joining South Denver Gastroenterology in 2004.

Over the last 20 years Dr. Kugelmas’ main focus has been on the care of patients with liver diseases. Dr. Kugelmas serves on the board of trustees for CLDF and is a course director for the LiverConnect National Conference. He is a global lecturer on topics of chronic liver disease, has presented regularly at multiple gastroenterology, liver and transplantation annual meetings, and has published more than 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Kugelmas is the Director of Clinical Research at South Denver Gastroenterology and has overseen more than 100 clinical trials as a Principal Investigator.