DAVID WETTER

Dr. Wetter is the Jon M. and Karen Huntsman Presidential Professor at the University of Utah and Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI). He serves as Director of the Center for HOPE, a Senior Director at HCI, and Director for Community and Stakeholder Engagement for Utah’s Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. Dr. Wetter’s work is targeted at reducing health risk behaviors and outcomes through translational research. He has had continuous NIH funding for almost 30 years and has more than 300 publications. His research program has received awards from the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Society for Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association, American Society of Preventive Oncology, and AstraZeneca/Scientific American. Dr. Wetter has extensive leadership experience in team science, including leading numerous large, complex, multi-site, multi-project grants (e.g., center grants). Dr. Wetter’s team has developed highly effective healthcare system change and population health management interventions designed to increase utilization of evidence-based interventions, and has also been active in developing and implementing new behavior change approaches including digital health apps and counseling frameworks.

Over the past 25 years, Dr. Wetter has been the primary mentor for ~36 postdoctoral scholars, many of whom are now in major leadership roles at academic institutions across the country. He has served as the primary mentor for 16 funded, NIH/American Cancer Society Career Development awards, and he received the Robert M. Chamberlain Distinguished Mentor Award (out of a faculty of 1,600) and the inaugural Leading Mentor in Cancer Prevention Award (out of a faculty of 80) while at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.