Douglas Adler, MD, is an assistant professor in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He is also an investigator and director of therapeutic endoscopy at Huntsman Cancer Institute.

His interests focus on pancreatobiliary disease (disorders of the pancreas, gallbladder, and bile ducts) and therapeutic endoscopy, which is a procedure using a lighted, flexible instrument, or endoscope, to reach areas of the body that require treatment. Adler is also interested in gastrointestinal (GI) cancer and endoscopic therapy for GI cancer patients.

Adler received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1995. He then completed internal medicine internship and residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School. Adler completed both a general gastroenterology fellowship and an advanced therapeutic endoscopy (ERCP) fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and an endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) fellowship at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School. Before joining Huntsman Cancer Institute, he was director of gastrointestinal endoscopy at the University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center. Adler has lectured and published extensively on therapeutic endoscopy and gastrointestinal cancers, and serves as a manuscript reviewer as well as on editorial review boards for a variety of publications.