Dr. Charles Scoggins, Vice Chair for Operations and Finance for the Department of Surgery and Professor of Surgery, Division of Surgical Oncology, has been named Medical Director of University Physicians Associates Services, Inc. (UPA). UPA is made up of more than 500 doctors and dentists, all members of the University of Louisville School of Medicine faculty, who work together to care for patients from prenatal days to the senior years. As Medical Director, Dr. Scoggins will manage all credentialing of the UPA physicians.

Dr. Scoggins specializes in surgical oncology. He graduated with honors from the University of Texas Medical School at Houston in 1995, and subsequently entered a General Surgery residency at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. In addition to clinical surgical training, he completed a two-year research fellowship while at Vanderbilt. Dr. Scoggins completed his Chief Residency at Vanderbilt in 2002 and is certified in general surgery by the American Board of Surgery.

Dr. Scoggins completed a surgical oncology fellowship at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas in 2004. While there, he was awarded the Clinical Excellence Award for outstanding patient care. Dr. Scoggins' clinical interests include liver and pancreatic cancer, stomach and esophageal cancers, intestinal cancers, melanomas, and sarcomas. His research interests include liver tumors, hepatic metastases, pancreatic cancer, and sarcomas.