Yuman Fong, M.D., City of Hope’s Chair in Surgical Oncology, Elected to National Academy of Medicine
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The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) honored Fong for transforming the fields of liver surgery, robotics in surgery, imaging and display in medicine, and gene therapy. - Fong has been a surgical oncologist at City of Hope since 2014 and serves as director of its Center for Surgical Innovation, director of its Center for International Medicine, and chair and professor of its Department of Surgery.
- Founded in 1970, NAM is one of the three academies that make up the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine .
- He is also City of Hopes Deana and Steve Campbell Physician-in-Chief Distinguished Chair.