Position:  Board Advisor

 

M. Scott Lucia, M.D. is Associate Professor and Chief of Genitourinary and Renal Pathology at the University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center where he also serves as the Director of the Prostate Diagnostic Laboratory and Co-Director of the Prostate Cancer Research Laboratories.  Dr. Lucia served as the primary pathologist for the Prostate Cancer Prevention Trial (PCPT), sponsored by the Southwest Oncology Group, and the Medical Therapy of Prostate Symptoms (MTOPS) trial, sponsored by the NIDDK.  He currently is the primary pathologist for the Vitamin E and Selenium Chemoprevention Trial (SELECT) also sponsored by the Southwest Oncology Group.  He directs the operation of several tissue and serum biorepositories for prostate and prostatic diseases including those for the PCPT, MTOPS, SELECT, and the University of Colorado Cancer Center Prostate Biorepository .  He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles, reviews and book chapters.  His primary areas of interest include pathology of prostate cancer and hyperplasia, early detection and prevention of prostate cancer, and mechanisms of carcinogenesis.