Jessica Karen Wong joins Fox Chase

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Jessica Karen Wong will join Fox Chase Cancer Center July 1 as assistant professor in the academic clinical track in the Department of Radiation Oncology.

Wong will join the staff upon completion of her radiation oncology residency program at Fox Chase, where she served as chief resident last year and won the RSNA Roentgen Resident/Fellow Research Award.

Before attending medical school, Wong earned her masters of engineering in biomedical engineering from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. She received her medical degree from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine on multiple scholarships.

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