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Dr. Fong is the Chairman of Surgery at the City of Hope Medical Center. Dr. Yuman Fong received a BA in medieval literature from Brown University (1981), and an MD from Cornell University (1984). Dr. Fong is best known clinically for his work in the field of hepatobiliary surgery. His work helped establish hepatic resection of colorectal metastases as a safe, effective, and potentially curative option. His most recent work has been to advance the use of robotic surgery for cancer. He is editor of The SAGES Atlas in Robotic Surgery. For his clinical work, he was awarded the Layton F. Rikkers Master Clinician Award from the SSAT. He has assisted in the design and deployment of many novel surgical and gene surgery tools. His group is now working on disrupting the field of cell culture and cell-based production of biologics with the goal of making gene and cell therapies affordable. His work in medical engineering has led to his election to the American Institute of Medical and Biologic Engineering. Dr. Fong’s laboratory has focused over the last 25 years has been in the field of gene therapy. His group was the first to administer recombinant viruses into the blood stream of man as a cancer treatment. The research group is in the midst of deploying novel engineered viruses and immune cells in trials for cancers. He has co-authored over 900 articles and 16 textbooks.

bile duct cancer; gallbladder cancer; gastrointestinal cancers; hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery; liver cancer; pancreatic cancer; robotic surgery