ElizabethTan-ChiuMD

Summary

• Elizabeth Tan-Chiu, M.D. - Board Certified Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology
  
  As a cancer specialist, Dr. Tan-Chiu has devoted her entire medical career to Breast and Ovarian Cancer providing compassionate patient care and innovative research by making significant contributions to new and better therapies.
  
  Dr. Tan-Chiu is a cum laude graduate of the University of the Philippines with a major in biology. In 1986, she graduated from Far Eastern University Medical School in Manila, Philippines and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts. She completed her fellowship training in Hematology and Medical Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. After that, she worked as a hematologist-oncologist for the Erie Veterans Association.
  
  •    Dr. Tan-Chiu was an Assistant Professor at the Medical College of Pennsylvania-Hahnemann.
  •    She also served as the Associate-Director of Medical Oversight for the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP), an NCI-funded organization that has been conducting clinical trials in breast and colorectal cancer for over forty years.
  •    She was instrumental in writing NSABP's adjuvant clinical trial involving Herceptin© - Trastuzumab and has published numerous journal articles in the adjuvant therapy and prevention of breast cancer.
  •    She served as Associate Director of Cancer Research Network.
  •    She is currently the Medical Director of Florida Cancer Care and Research Director of Florida Cancer Research Institute.