Angela Cheung
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MD, 1988, Johns Hopkins University
PhD, 1997, Harvard University
University Health Network
Angela Cheung | |
|---|---|
| Spouse | Stephen W. Hwang |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BSc, Bryn Mawr College MD, 1988, Johns Hopkins University PhD, 1997, Harvard University |
| Thesis | The Economic Impact of Primary Prevention: Methods and Applications of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (1997) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Toronto University Health Network |
Angela Man-Wei Cheung is a Canadian internal medicine specialist. At the University of Toronto, she is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair, the KY and Betty Ho Chair of Integrative Medicine, and a senior scientist at Toronto General Hospital Research Institute and the Schroeder Arthritis Institute. Cheung also established the University of Toronto Center for Excellence in Skeletal Health Assessment and the Osteoporosis Program at the University Health Network.
Cheung was born and raised to parents who immigrated from Hong Kong, China.[1] She attended Bryn Mawr College for her Bachelor of Science degree before enrolling at Johns Hopkins University for her medical degree.[2] While at Johns Hopkins, she met her future husband Stephen W. Hwang and they decided to move to Toronto for their residency to be closer to Cheung's parents.[1] Following their residency, they returned to Boston.[1] While Cheung pursued her doctoral degree in health policy at Harvard,[1] Hwang joined the non-profit organization "Health Care for the Homeless" to assist people living on the streets and in emergency shelters.[3] She published her dissertation entitled The Economic Impact of Primary Prevention: Methods and Applications of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in 1997.[4]
