Wes Kidder, MD, MPH

Education
7/2018 - Hematology/Oncology Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco
6/2015 - Internal Medicine Residency, University of California, San Diego
7/2012 - Internal Medicine Internship, University of Colorado, Denver
MD, 5/2011 - Medicine, The George Washington University
MPH, 8/2005 - Public Health, University of Southern California
BA, 5/2002 - Biology, Political Science, University of Colorado, Boulder
Publications

  1. Hillege LE, Trepka KR, Guthrie BGH, Fu X, Aarnoutse R, Paymar MR, Olson C, Zhang C, Ortega E, Ramirez L, de Vos-Geelen J, Valkenburg-van Iersel L, van Hellemond IEG, Baars A, Vestjens JHMJ, Penders J, Deutschbauer A, Atreya CE, Kidder WA, Smidt ML, Ziemons J, Turnbaugh PJ. Microbial vitamin biosynthesis links gut microbiota dynamics to chemotherapy toxicity. mBio 2025. PMID: 40391895


  2. Trepka KR, Kidder WA, Kyaw TS, Halsey T, Olson CA, Ortega EF, Noecker C, Upadhyay V, Stanfield D, Steiding P, Guthrie BGH, Spanogiannopoulos P, Dumlao D, Turnbaugh JA, Stachler MD, Van Blarigan EL, Venook AP, Atreya CE, Turnbaugh PJ. Expansion of a bacterial operon during cancer treatment ameliorates fluoropyrimidine toxicity. Science translational medicine 2025. PMID: 40238917


  3. Wang SJ, Kidder W, Joseph NM, Le BK, Lindsay S, Moon F, Nakakura E, Zhang L, Bergsland EK. Factors associated with grade progression in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. Endocrine-related cancer 2025. PMID: 39813097


  4. Hillege LE, Trepka KR, Ziemons J, Aarnoutse R, Guthrie BGH, de Vos-Geelen J, Iersel LV, van Hellemond IEG, Baars A, Vestjens JHMJ, Penders J, Deutschbauer A, Atreya CE, Kidder WA, Turnbaugh PJ, Smidt ML. Metagenomic analysis during capecitabine therapy reveals microbial chemoprotective mechanisms and predicts drug toxicity in colorectal cancer patients. medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences 2024. PMID: 39484258


  5. Kyaw TS, Upadhyay V, Tolstykh I, Van Loon K, Laffan A, Stanfield D, Gempis D, Kenfield SA, Chan JM, Piawah S, Atreya CE, Ng K, Venook A, Kidder W, Turnbaugh PJ, Van Blarigan EL. Variety of fruit and vegetables and alcohol intake are associated with gut microbial species and gene abundance in colorectal cancer survivors. The American journal of clinical nutrition 2023. PMID: 37474105


  6. Greenberg AL, Tolstykh IV, Van Loon K, Laffan A, Stanfield D, Steiding P, Kenfield SA, Chan JM, Atreya CE, Piawah S, Kidder W, Venook AP, Van Blarigan EL, Varma MG. Association between adherence to the American Cancer Society Nutrition and Physical Activity Guidelines and stool frequency among colon cancer survivors: a cohort study. Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice 2022. PMID: 36335220


  7. Spanogiannopoulos P, Kyaw TS, Guthrie BGH, Bradley PH, Lee JV, Melamed J, Malig YNA, Lam KN, Gempis D, Sandy M, Kidder W, Van Blarigan EL, Atreya CE, Venook A, Gerona RR, Goga A, Pollard KS, Turnbaugh PJ. Host and gut bacteria share metabolic pathways for anti-cancer drug metabolism. Nature microbiology 2022. PMID: 36138165


  8. Silverstein J, Kidder W, Fisher S, Hope TA, Maisel S, Ng D, Van Ziffle J, Atreya CE, Van Loon K. Hormone receptor expression of colorectal cancer diagnosed during the peri-partum period. Endocrine connections 2019. PMID: 31370007


  9. Kidder W, Chang EY, M Moran C, Rose SC, von Drygalski A. Persistent Vascular Remodeling and Leakiness are Important Components of the Pathobiology of Re-bleeding in Hemophilic Joints: Two Informative Cases. Microcirculation (New York, N.Y. : 1994) 2016. PMID: 26833634


  10. Kidder W, Nguyen S, Larios J, Bergstrom J, Ceponis A, von Drygalski A. Point-of-care musculoskeletal ultrasound is critical for the diagnosis of hemarthroses, inflammation and soft tissue abnormalities in adult patients with painful haemophilic arthropathy. Haemophilia : the official journal of the World Federation of Hemophilia 2015. PMID: 25623830


  11. Nagourney RA, Brewer CA, Radecki S, Kidder WA, Sommers BL, Evans SS, Minor DR, DiSaia PJ. Phase II trial of gemcitabine plus cisplatin repeating doublet therapy in previously treated, relapsed ovarian cancer patients. Gynecologic oncology 2003. PMID: 12504624