Heather Wakelee
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Heather A. Wakelee is a professor of oncology at Stanford University Medical Center.[1] Her research focuses on lung cancer.
Wakelee received a bachelor's degree in molecular biology from Princeton University in 1992 and MD from Johns Hopkins University in 1996. She is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha.[2] She served as an intern, as a resident in internal medicine, and as a fellow in oncology at Stanford from 1996 to 2003. She was appointed as a staff physician in 2003.[3][2]
Wakelee is an author on over 180 papers related to cancer research.[4] In 2003, she was given a Merit Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology.[2]
She is the lead investigator on the ECOG-ARIN clinical trials group at Stanford, and was given a Young Investigator Award from ECOG-ARIN in 2015.[4] She serves on the board of directors of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer.[5]
