Research Programs: Carcinogenesis & Chemoprevention, Prevention & Etiology
Professor, Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology

perdu001@umn.edu
612-625-8999, office

Research Interests

Dr. Perdue's clinical responsibilities include general gastroenterology and endoscopy. A member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, Dr. Perdue has a special interest in improving the health disparities of Native Americans. While in medical school at the University of Washington he completed the American Indian Health Pathway, as well as training fellowships with the Seattle Indian Health Board and the Center for Disease Control's Arctic Investigation Program in Anchorage, Alaska.

Using medical sociology, epidemiology, and outcomes research methods, Dr. Perdue is working to develop culturally-sensitive strategies to curb the disproportionately high incidence and mortality of colorectal cancer experienced by American Indians and Alaska Natives. His active research projects include investigating the feasibility of a mobile colorectal cancer screening program that would bring colonoscopies to reservation clinics, a study investigating fecal immunochemical screening in Alaska Natives, and study looking at barriers to colorectal cancer screening among American Indian women in Washington's Puget Sound.

Dr. Perdue also co-chairs the Minnesota Colorectal Cancer Task Force, and the Minnesota Intertribal Colorectal Cancer Council, and is a member of the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable.

Selected Publications

Perdue DG, Freeman ML, and the ERCOST Study Group Plastic vs Self-Expanding Metal Stents in Hilar Tumors; Early Complications and Outcomes. In Press: Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Perdue DG, Schwartzenberg SJ, Cass O, Milla C, Dunitz J, Jesserun J, Sharp HL Hepatolithiasis and Cholangiocarcinoma in Cystic Fibrosis. Digestive Diseases and Sciences 2007;52:10:2638

Chutkan RK, Ahmad AS, Cohen J, Cruz-Correa MR, Desilets DJ, Dominitz JA, Dunkin BJ, Kantsevoy SV, McHenry L Jr, Mishra G, Perdue D, Petrini JL, Pfau PR, Savides TJ, Telford JJ, Vargo JJ. ERCP core curriculum. Gastrointest Endosc. 2006 Mar;63(3):361-76.

Perdue DG, Murray J, Wang KK. The wizards of odds: cost-effectiveness, Barrett's screening, and surveillance guidelines. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatoly. 2004 Oct;2(10):865-7.

Perdue DG, Nelson DB Virtual Virtual Colonoscopy? Gastroenterology. 121(1):221-2, 2001 Jul

Perdue DG, Bulkow LR, Petersen, KM, Singleton R, Gellin B, Davidson M, and Parkinson AJ. Invasive Haemophilus influenzae Disease in Alaskan Adults 1980-1996: The Impact of Childhood Vaccination Programs on Adult Morbidity. JAMA 2000;283;23:3089-94.

Perdue DG, Henderson J, Bogart A, Wen Y, Buchwald D. Traditionalism and Colorectal Cancer Screening among American Indians (Under tribal review).