FranklinC.WongMDPhD JD

Professor of Nuclear Medicine and Neuro-Oncology

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Dr. Franklin Wong is a nuclear medicine physician in Houston, TX and is affiliated with University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. He received his medical degree from Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University and has been in practice 31 years. He also speaks multiple languages, including Chinese (Cantonese) and Chinese (Mandarin). He is experienced in positron emission tomography, radionuclide imaging, pet / ct, radionuclide therapy of cancer and non-cancerous diseases, and radionuclide therapy of leptomeningeal metastases clinicaltrials.

University of HoustonJD, Law, 1994 - 1996
Johns Hopkins UniversityFellowship, Nuclear Medicine, 1990 - 1992
UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical CenterResidency, Neurology, 1987 - 1990
University of California (Irvine)Internship, Internal Medicine, 1986 - 1987
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and ScienceClass of 1986

Patent US8329141B2 - Locoregional internal radionuclide ablation of abnormal tissues US Patent and Trademark Office, 2012

PubMed

7 citations
18F-Fluciclovine-Avid Reactive Axillary Lymph Nodes After COVID-19 Vaccination.
Franklin C. Wong, Lucia Martiniova, Avantika Masrani, Gregory Ravizzini
Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 2021-06-28
156 citations
Evaluation of preoperative chemotherapy using PET with fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose in breast cancer.
Pedro Bassa, E. Edmund Kim, Tomio Inoue, Franklin C. Wong, Meliha Korkmaz
Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 1996-06-01
210 citations
Phase II study of tariquidar, a selective P-glycoprotein inhibitor, in patients with chemotherapy-resistant, advanced breast carcinoma.
Lajos Pusztai, Peter Wagner, Nuhad K. Ibrahim, Edgardo Rivera, Richard L. Theriault
Cancer. 2005-08-15

American Academy of Neurology - AAN
Fellow-since 1998
American College of Nuclear Physician
Fellow- since 1998
American College of Legal Medicine
Fellow- since 1998
State Bar of Texas
Member #798594 since 1997
Aircraft Owner and Pilot Association
FAA-licensed Pilot since 1983- Fixed-wing Airplanes, Land and Sea; Helicopters
United States Patent and Trademark Office
Registered Patent Attorney #53789 since 2003
All China Lawyers Association
Member #19214401630920172. Since 2016