About Quyen Chu
Dr. Quyen D. Chu is a board-certified surgical oncologist and a tenured professor of surgery at Howard University Hospital and College of Medicine. He has over 20 years of surgical experiences, specializing in the following cancers: Gastrointestinal tract (pancreas, liver, bile duct, esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon/rectum), sarcoma (intra-abdominal, extremity), skin cancers (melanoma, squamous/basal cell carcinoma), and cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC). Dr. Chu also serves as Chief of Surgical Oncology and Associate Director of Cancer Center for Howard University College of Medicine
Dr. Chu earned his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, medical degree at the Brown University School of Medicine in Providence, Rhode Island, and completed an internship in general surgery at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. His residency in general surgery was performed at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston, where he also served as chief resident. He was a research fellow in the surgery department at Brown and completed a clinical fellowship in surgical oncology at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York. He also received his Executive MBA at Centenary College, Shreveport Louisiana.
Dr. Chu serves in leadership positions for national and international organizations such as the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association, American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American College of Surgeons. He has special research interest in breast and pancreatic cancers. On the clinical side, his expertise includes pancreas, liver, gastric, esophageal and colorectal cancers, and advanced/recurrent solid tumors.
