Biography - Sean J. Mulvihill, MD

Sean J. Mulvihill, MD

Dr. Sean Mulvihill is Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.  He holds the Ross Anderson Presidential Endowed Chair in Surgery and serves as Senior Director for Clinical Affairs, Huntsman Cancer Institute.

Prior to assuming the Chair at Utah in November of 2000, Dr. Mulvihill was Professor of Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco and Chief of their Division of General Surgery.

Dr. Mulvihill is an editor of a major surgical textbook, Surgery:  Basic Science and Clinical Evidence, and has authored over 130 scientific papers and book chapters.  He is past-president of the American Hepatopancreatobiliary Association.

Dr. Mulvihill’s clinical expertise relates to diseases of the liver, pancreas, and bile ducts.  He has worked to improve surgical outcomes and to develop novel treatment strategies for patients with pancreatic cancer and islet cell tumors. He leads a multidisciplinary research program in pancreas cancer at the Huntsman Cancer Institute and focuses his own research effort on identifying early diagnosis biomarkers in that disease.

Dr. Mulvihill is particularly interested in utilizing a multidisciplinary approach for cancer patients and is realizing this goal in his role at the Huntsman Cancer Institute.