Scott Pearson, MD
Professor of Surgery
As a surgical oncologist, Dr. Pearson’s research and clinical interest is colorectal cancer. His research focuses on the cellular biology of colorectal cancer, specifically how the junctional proteins between epithelial cells are dysregulated during carcinogenesis. His laboratory used high-throughput screening to identify small molecules capable of restoring E-cadherin to the cell membrane. From a clinical perspective, Dr. Pearson is interested in how patient narratives form the basic science of clinical medicine and he teaches an undergraduate course on narrative medicine within Vanderbilt’s College of Arts and Science. His further interests include the history of anatomy and anatomical art and he is the author of the novels, Rupture, and Public Anatomy.