Dr. Jordan Karlitz

Dr. Jordan Karlitz is a Senior Medical Officer, Cancer Screening, at Exact Sciences now Abbott. He is a board-certified gastroenterologist whose academic and clinical career has focused on colorectal cancer screening, early-onset GI cancers and hereditary cancer syndromes. He completed his undergraduate degree at U.C. Berkeley where he majored in molecular biology/genetics and received his MD degree from the McGill University Faculty of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at Columbia University Medical Center and his GI fellowship at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Prior to Exact Sciences now Abbott, Dr. Karlitz was Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Denver Health Medical Center and Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.

Dr. Jordan Karlitz has extensive experience working within the Veteran's Health Administration, with over 18 years of clinical service as a gastroenterologist in the VA system. From 2008 to 2021, while on GI faculty at Tulane, he was a staff gastroenterologist at the New Orleans VA and served as the site director for the Tulane GI fellowship program. Most recently, he has been on staff at the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center in Colorado. Since joining industry full-time, he is still clinically active, serving as a voluntary GI physician at the VA where he performs GI procedures. His VA work has also focused on cancer prevention research, with particular emphasis on improving early detection and screening outcomes for veterans. While on staff at the VA he has led research teams that led to a number of high impact publications, including a manuscript on early-onset colorectal cancer published in Annals of Internal Medicine that served as one of the key data sources for the USPSTF guidelines in which the colorectal cancer screening age was lowered from age 50 to 45.

In addition to his research in early-onset colorectal cancer, Dr. Karlitz has research experience in hereditary GI cancer syndromes and healthcare disparities and has won multiple national research awards. This work has been published in a range of journals including Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Gastroenterology, Cancer and the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network. Dr. Karlitz has also held multiple leadership positions on a national level including Chair of Public Relations of the American College of Gastroenterology and Steering Committee/Board member of the National Colorectal Cancer Roundtable (NCCRT), one of the American Cancer Society's mission-critical roundtables.