PHILADELPHIA (June 17, 2020) – Fox Chase Cancer Center announces the hiring of Jessica Karen Wong, MD, MEng, who will join the Department of Radiation Oncology as an assistant professor in the academic clinician track.
Wong will join the staff upon completion of her radiation oncology residency program at Fox Chase, where she served as chief resident last year and won the RSNA Roentgen Resident/Fellow Research Award.
Before attending medical school, Wong earned her masters of engineering in biomedical engineering from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. She received her medical degree from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine on multiple scholarships.
She graduated with highest honors, was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honors Society, and received the Faculty Medal for Academic Achievement and AOA Distinguished Graduate Awards.
Wong completed her internship in internal medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. She has technical radiation oncology experience in a number of areas, including external beam radiation therapy and brachytherapy.
“We’re very excited that Dr. Wong will be joining our faculty in the Department of Radiation Oncology. Throughout her residency, she has demonstrated her clinical knowledge and compassion as well as her academic expertise in the treatment of prostate cancers and lymphomas, and she will be an asset to our department,” said Eric M. Horwitz, MD, FABS, FASTRO, chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology.
Wong is a member of the American Society for Radiation Oncology, American College of Radiation Oncology, Radiological Society of North America, and the Society of Women in Radiation Oncology.
She was a resident editor and radiation biology and radiation physics buildout contributor for RadOncQuestions. She has published multiple manuscripts and has had presentations at the American Radium Society Meeting and the American Society for Radiation Oncology Conference.
Wong will begin work at Fox Chase on July 1, 2020.
