Education |
1973 |
Rice University, bachelor degree |
1978 |
Harvard University, doctoral degree |
Academic Experience |
2016 – present |
Senior Research Scientist, Breast Center, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY |
2016 – 2017 |
Visiting Scholar, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Language and Literatures, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH |
2009 – 2016 |
Senior Research Scientist, Department of Integrative Medicine, Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY |
1993 to 2008 |
Full professor, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY |
1999 to 2008 |
Director of herbal medicine program, Strang Cancer Prevention Center, New York, NY |
1993 to 2008 |
Director of preventive oncology, Strang Cancer Prevention Center, New York, NY |
1982 to 1993 |
Cancer researcher from research associate to associate member, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY |
1978 to 1982 |
Assistant professor, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI |
Honors and Awards |
Spirit of Jimmy V Research Grant recipient, 2006, V Foundation for Cancer Research |
Department of Defense grants for breast cancer research from 1994 to 2004 |
American Foundation for Chinese Medicine (AFCM) |
1999 to present |
Founder and president |
The AFCM is a not-for-profit organization which is exempt from federal tax. The overall objective of AFCM is to advance the knowledge of Chinese medicine as it relates to the prevention , intervention and control of chronic diseases, particularly cancer. This is achieved through evidence-based scientific research through laboratory investigations and clinical studies. Dr. Wong is the founder and president of the foundation. |