Sunny Wang, MD

Associate Professor & Chief

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

  1. Berchuck JE, Meyer CS, Zhang N, Berchuck CM, Trivedi NN, Cohen B, Wang S. Association of Mental Health Treatment With Outcomes for US Veterans Diagnosed With Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. JAMA oncology 2020. PMID: 32496507


  2. Zuniga KB, Borno H, Chan JM, Van Blarigan EL, Friedlander TW, Wang S, Zhang L, Kenfield SA. The Problem of Underrepresentation: Black Participants in Lifestyle Trials Among Patients with Prostate Cancer. Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities 2020. PMID: 32078741


  3. Vella M, Meyer CS, Zhang N, Cohen BE, Whooley MA, Wang S, Hope MD. 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. PMID: 31747036


  4. Jacob E Berchuck, Craig Meyer, Ning Zhang, Neil Trivedi, Beth Cohen, Sunny Wang. Disparities in lung cancer outcomes for veterans with comorbid mental disorders. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2019. PMID:


  5. Lowenstein M, Vijayaraghavan M, Burke NJ, Karliner L, Wang S, Peters M, Lozano A, Kaplan CP. Real-world lung cancer screening decision-making: Barriers and facilitators. Lung cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 2019. PMID: 31200824


  6. Wang S, Drye BD, Cornett PA. The Team Approach to Advanced Cancer Care-Redefining the Gold Standard. JAMA internal medicine 2016. PMID: 27367463


  7. . Impact of comorbidity and age on survival among older veterans with early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). 2014. PMID:


  8. Wong ML, Clarke CA, Yang J, Hwang J, Hiatt RA, Wang S. 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. PMID: 23399956


  9. Wang S, Wong ML, Hamilton N, Davoren JB, Jahan TM, Walter LC. 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. PMID: 22454424


  10. Ponzo F, Zhuang H, Liu FM, Lacorte LB, Moussavian B, Wang S, Alavi A. 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. PMID: 12045430