PHILADELPHIA (June 24, 2016) — Shuanzeng (Sam) Wei, MD, PhD, has joined the department of pathology at Fox Chase Cancer Center as an assistant professor, where he will specialize in surgical pathology and cytopathology.
“Dr. Wei’s expertise in surgical pathology and cytopathology makes him an excellent addition to our team,” said Arthur Patchefsky, MD, the chair of pathology at Fox Chase. “We look forward to working with him to advance diagnostic techniques and therefore improve patient outcomes.”
Wei is a licensed, board-certified pathologist who earned his medical degree from North China University of Science and Technology in Tangshan, China, where he then worked as an instructor in the department of pathology. He earned his PhD degree in pathology in 2004 from Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, where he also completed one-year surgical pathology residency training.
He later finished postdoctoral research fellowships in the department of biological chemistry at the University of California, Irvine, and in the department of urology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Then he completed a combined anatomic pathology and clinical pathology residency, a surgical pathology mini-fellowship, and most recently, a fellowship in cytopathology in June — all at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
“I’m truly humbled to be joining such a prestigious group of doctors and researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center,” Wei said. “I look forward to working with the talented pathologists to advance the study of cancer diagnoses on the cellular level.”