About Me

I’m a medical oncologist and researcher treating patients with sarcomas as well as poorly classified and difficult-to-treat tumors. My primary role is to treat the complete patient, not just the cancer. I am also medical director of Clinical and Research Informatics for the James Cancer Hospital to help facilitate and improve cancer research. I am committed to understanding our patients’ entire health backgrounds, the biology of their tumors and separate health factors so we can customize a sophisticated, targeted treatment regimen that is specific for each patient. I was rated in the top 10 percent of physicians in the nation for patient satisfaction for multiple years. I serve as an associate professor in the Departments of Internal Medicine and Biomedical Informatics at The Ohio State University

As a researcher with a background in developing sophisticated software to analyze cancer data, I’m honored to work at a world-class, comprehensive cancer center where treatment is a collaborative effort of accomplished, accessible, compassionate professionals who extend beyond measures to provide first-class patient care. Research is critical to treating these types of cancers that are often poorly understood. As a member of the Translational Therapeutics Program at the OSUCCC – James, my research focus is on using computers to better understand complex gene data in cancer. My lab is applying a matching algorithm that uses genomic predictors to identify sarcoma patients who are sensitive to different treatments.

My work has been published in more than 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Science Translational Research, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Clinical Cancer Research, Journal of Surgical Oncology and Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. I also hold multiple national and international leadership roles in organizations such as the ALLIANCE National Clinical Trials Network and the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Highlights

• Rated in the top 10 percent of physicians in the nation for patient satisfaction, 2017

Additional Languages I Speak

• Taiwanese-Hokkien

Procedures and Conditions I Treat

• Sarcoma
• Soft Tissue Cancers
• Urologic Cancers
• Male Genitalia Cancers
• Connective and Soft Tissue Cancers
• Osteosarcoma
• Peritoneal Cancers

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