Sunny Wang, MD
Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Sunny Wang is Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Hematology and Oncology at UCSF and Chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology at the San Francisco VA Health Care System (SFVAHCS). She has an active clinical and research interest in lung, head/neck, and prostate cancer, with a focus on clinical trials and outcomes research.

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
• Hematology/Oncology University of California, San Francisco 09/2009
• Internal Medicine University of California, San Francisco 06/2005
• MD Medicine University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine 06/2002
• BA History and Science Harvard University 06/1997

Publications (10)

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Life StyleSocial ClassCarcinoma, Non-Small-Cell LungNeoplasm StagingMental DisordersVeterans HealthEmploymentPatient Care TeamVeteransCarcinoma, Large CellLung NeoplasmsCarcinoma, Squamous CellAdenocarcinoma, Bronchiolo-AlveolarAdenocarcinomaHousing

• Association of Mental Health Treatment With Outcomes for US Veterans Diagnosed With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.
  JAMA oncology 2020 Berchuck JE, Meyer CS, Zhang N, Berchuck CM, Trivedi NN, Cohen B, Wang S
• The Problem of Underrepresentation: Black Participants in Lifestyle Trials Among Patients with Prostate Cancer.
  Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities 2020 Zuniga KB, Borno H, Chan JM, Van Blarigan EL, Friedlander TW, Wang S, Zhang L, Kenfield SA
• Association of Receipt of Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Mortality in the Veterans Affairs Health Care System.
  JAMA network open 2019 Vella M, Meyer CS, Zhang N, Cohen BE, Whooley MA, Wang S, Hope MD
• Disparities in lung cancer outcomes for veterans with comorbid mental disorders.
  Journal of Clinical Oncology 2019 Jacob E Berchuck, Craig Meyer, Ning Zhang, Neil Trivedi, Beth Cohen, Sunny Wang
• Real-world lung cancer screening decision-making: Barriers and facilitators.
  Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2019 Lowenstein M, Vijayaraghavan M, Burke NJ, Karliner L, Wang S, Peters M, Lozano A, Kaplan CP

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• The Team Approach to Advanced Cancer Care-Redefining the Gold Standard.
  JAMA internal medicine 2016 Wang S, Drye BD, Cornett PA
• Impact of comorbidity and age on survival among older veterans with early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
  Journal of Clinical Oncology 2014 Melisa L. Wong, Sunny Wang, Ying Shi, Curtis J Wozniak, Louise C Walter
• Incidence of non-small-cell lung cancer among California Hispanics according to neighborhood socioeconomic status.
  Journal of thoracic oncology : official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 2013 Wong ML, Clarke CA, Yang J, Hwang J, Hiatt RA, Wang S
• Impact of age and comorbidity on non-small-cell lung cancer treatment in older veterans.
  Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2012 Wang S, Wong ML, Hamilton N, Davoren JB, Jahan TM, Walter LC
• Tc-99m sulfur colloid and Tc-99m tagged red blood cell methods are comparable for detecting lower gastrointestinal bleeding in clinical practice.
  Clinical nuclear medicine 2002 Ponzo F, Zhuang H, Liu FM, Lacorte LB, Moussavian B, Wang S, Alavi A