Fox Chase Cancer Center Welcomes Weier Li

PHILADELPHIA (June 24, 2020) – Fox Chase Cancer Center announces the hiring of Weier Li, MD, who will join the Department of Diagnostic Imaging as a full time body imager. Li will join Fox Chase as an assistant professor.

Li received his medical degree from the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and was awarded the Founder’s Medal for being the top graduating student. He completed his internal medicine internship at the University of Tennessee prior to his radiology residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He has completed fellowship training in both abdominal imaging and musculoskeletal imaging.

He is fluent in Mandarin and has been published in several peer-reviewed journals. Li will begin work at Fox Chase on July 13, 2020.

Fox Chase Cancer Center (Fox Chase), which includes the Institute for Cancer Research and the American Oncologic Hospital and is a part of Temple Health, is one of the leading comprehensive cancer centers in the United States. Founded in 1904 in Philadelphia as one of the nation’s first cancer hospitals, Fox Chase was also among the first institutions to be designated a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center in 1974. Fox Chase is also one of just 10 members of the Alliance of Dedicated Cancer Centers. Fox Chase researchers have won the highest awards in their fields, including two Nobel Prizes. Fox Chase physicians are also routinely recognized in national rankings, and the Center’s nursing program has received the Magnet recognition for excellence six consecutive times. Today, Fox Chase conducts a broad array of nationally competitive basic, translational, and clinical research, with special programs in cancer prevention, detection, survivorship, and community outreach. It is the policy of Fox Chase Cancer Center that there shall be no exclusion from, or participation in, and no one denied the benefits of, the delivery of quality medical care on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity/expression, disability, age, ancestry, color, national origin, physical ability, level of education, or source of payment.

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