Sonia Kupfer MD

Dr. Sonia Kupfer is a physician-scientist with clinical and research interests in gastrointestinal cancers and health disparities. She serves as Director of the Gastrointestinal Cancer Risk and Prevention Clinic at UChicago Medicine. Gastroenterologist Sonia Kupfer, MD, is a skilled specialist in all types of digestive system disorders. As a physician in the Comprehensive Cancer Risk and Prevention Clinic and the Celiac Center, she is particularly focused on diagnosing and treating patients with genetic disorders such as hereditary gastrointestinal cancer syndromes and celiac disease.

She has received funding from the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute for studies of genetic associations in African-American colorectal cancer patients. She is an active member of the American Gastroenterological Association and the Collaborative Group of the Americas on Inherited Colorectal Cancer (CGA-ICC), and served as CGA-ICC President in 2016-17.