Chuong D. Hoang MD, FACS

Dr. Chuong D. Hoang is a surgeon-scientist sub-specialized in thoracic surgical oncology.

His research section (Molecular Therapeutics) is concerned with the comprehensive identification, understanding of mechanisms, innovating delivery methods, and preclinical development of promising candidate therapeutic microRNAs (miRNA or miR) against thoracic cancers.  This translational research pipeline also serves to generate hypothesis-driven projects aimed at biomarker discovery for purposes of diagnosis, prognosis, and response evaluation. Extensive multi-disciplinary collaborations ranging from computational systems biology to materials science and chemistry have been established to achieve these broad goals.

His lab currently uses malignant pleural mesothelioma, a topologically complex surface cancer involving the chest cavity, as a model to integrate and validate these research endeavors.  Other thoracic cancers such as thymic epithelial tumors and non-small cell lung carcinomas are also of interest with ongoing research project development.

His clinical expertise includes all the major aspects of thoracic surgery including procedures for lung cancer, other primary lung tumors, mesothelioma, thymic malignancies, esophageal cancer, pulmonary metastases, Pancoast tumors, and tracheal cancers.  He utilizes the latest techniques in endoscopic and minimally-invasive (VATS and robotic) thoracic surgery.