Spencer J. Carter

Luke Gessel, M.D., is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City. Dr. Gessel received his medical degree from Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, Ohio. He completed his Internal Medicine Internship, Residency at University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, and his and Gastrointestinal and Hepatology Fellowship at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Dr. Gessel is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. She sees many types of cases at the University of Utah Salt Lake facility and specializes in General Gastroenterology.

Dr. Daniel Leung is a tenured Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, and the Dr. Thomas D. Rees and Natalie B. Rees Presidential Endowed Chair in Global Medicine. He received his M.D. from the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Harvard Medical School in Boston. Dr. Leung also has clinical experience in several international settings, including locations in Asia, Africa, and South America. Dr. Leung is Board-Certified in Infectious Diseases, and sees patients on the Infectious Diseases consult service at the University of Utah Hospital and in the International Travel Clinic. He has a Certificate in Travel Health from the International Society of Travel Medicine, and is the Utah site director of the CDC-sponsored Global TravEpiNet and GeoSentinel surveillance networks for travel-related illnesses. His research focuses on the immunology, epidemiology, and clinical management of diarrheal diseases such as cholera, as well as investigations of gut dysfunction in returning travelers. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed research articles and has received grant funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the Thrasher Foundation, the Margolis Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Research: http://www.globalguthealth.org

Moniqué E. Cho, M.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology & Hypertension. Dr. Cho received her B.A. degree in Psychology from Cornell University, NY and M.D. degree from Dartmouth Medical School, NH. She completed her Internal Medicine residency and Nephrology fellowship at the University of Rochester in New York. Dr. Cho's research interest focuses on the efficacy of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibition to improve vascular and physical function in patients with chronic kidney disease.