Dr. Marcelo Kugelmas was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He received his medical degree with honors from the University of Buenos Aires. After his internship and internal medicine residency at University of Southern California-Los Angeles County Hospital in Los Angeles he went to Cleveland, OH where he completed gastroenterology fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and served as Chief Fellow in 1995. He then moved to Lexington, KY where he pursued further training in hepatology, liver transplantation, and advanced endoscopy; and remained there until 2000 as an Assistant Professor. He then moved to Colorado, where he joined the University of Colorado Liver section. Over the last 9 years Dr. Kugelmas' main focus has been on the care of patients with liver diseases. He became an Associate Professor of Medicine in 2004, before joining South Denver Gastroenterology. Dr. Kugelmas is a national lecturer on topics of chronic liver disease, has presented regularly at multiple gastroenterology, liver, and transplantation annual meetings, and has published over 20 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Education
University of Buenos Aires, Doctor of Medicine, 1987
Los Angeles County-University of Southern California, Internal Medicine Residency, 1990-1993
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Fellowship in Gastroenterology, 1993-1995
University of Kentucky, Fellowship in Hepatology, Liver Transplantation, and Advanced Endoscopy, 1995-1997

Board Certifications
Internal Medicine - 1993
Gastroenterology - 1995

Societies
American College of Physicians
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
American College of Gastroenterology
American Gastroenterology Association
American Society of Transplantation