Chief, Head and Neck Service, Department of Surgery
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY, United States
Richard J. Wong, MD, is the Chief of the Head and Neck Service and the Jatin P. Shah Chair in Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is co-leader of the Head and Neck Multidisciplinary Disease Management Team at MSKCC, co-director of the Center for HPV-Related Cancers at MSKCC, and Professor of Otolaryngology at Weill Cornell Medical College. His clinical practice focuses on the surgical management of patients with all types of head and neck cancers, with an emphasis on caring for patients with advanced, metastatic, and recurrent thyroid cancers.
Dr. Wong earned his BS and BA degrees from Stanford University, and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He completed residency training at the Harvard Otolaryngology Residency Program, and a combined clinical and NIH T32 research fellowship in Head and Neck Surgical Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He then joined the surgical faculty on the Head and Neck Service at MSKCC and became Chief of the Service in 2015.
Dr. Wong is the Principal Investigator a laboratory that explores interactions between nerves and cancers. He is a member of the Tumor Evolution, Heterogeneity, and Metastasis Study Section at the National Institutes of Health and leads an NIH T32 grant that supports the training of future Head and Neck surgical oncologists. He is a past President of the New York Head and Neck Society. Dr. Wong has delivered numerous invited lectures domestically and internationally.
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