Heather Wakelee
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Heather A. Wakelee is a professor of oncology at Stanford University Medical Center.[1] Her research focuses on lung cancer.
Wakelee received a Bachelor's degree in molecular biology from Princeton University in 1992 and MD from Johns Hopkins University in 1996. She is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha.[2] She served as an intern, as a resident in internal medicine, and as a fellow in oncology at Stanford from 1996 to 2003. She was appointed as a staff physician in 2003.[3][2]
Wakelee is an author on over 180 papers related to cancer research.[4] In 2003, she was given a Merit Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology.[2]
She is the lead investigator on the ECOG-ARIN clinical trials group at Stanford, and was given a Young Investigator Award from ECOG-ARIN in 2015.[4] She serves on the board of directors of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Heather Wakelee". stanfordhealthcare.org. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ a b c "Heather Wakelee". Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ "Dr. Wakelee - Lung Cancer Oncologist & Researcher". Mesothelioma Center - Vital Services for Cancer Patients & Families. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- ^ a b Zhang, Kaiping (December 2017). "Professor Heather A. Wakelee: facing new progress in lung cancer research, keep in mind how do we best help patients". Translational Lung Cancer Research. 6 (Suppl 1): S108–S110. doi:10.21037/tlcr.2017.11.07. ISSN 2218-6751. PMC 5750159. PMID 29299427.
- ^ "Heather Wakelee | International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer". www.iaslc.org. Retrieved 1 May 2019.
- Stanford University School of Medicine faculty
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumni
- Princeton University alumni
- American oncologists
- Women oncologists
- 20th-century American scientists
- 20th-century American women scientists
- 21st-century American scientists
- 21st-century American women scientists
- Living people