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Chunkit Fung

Title	Assistant Professor
Institution	School of Medicine and Dentistry
Department	Medicine
Address	University of Rochester Medical Center School of Medicine and Dentistry 601 Elmwood Ave, 704 Rochester NY 14642

Awards And Honors

1999			Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Scholarship \| Howard Hughes Medical Institute
2000			Summa Cum Laude with Distinction in Research \| Cornell University
2010			National Institute of Health Loan Repayment Program \| National Institute of Health
2011			American Society of Clinical Oncology Trainee Travel Award \| American Society of Clinical Oncology
2012	-	2015	Wimot Cancer Center Research Fellowship \| Wimot Cancer Center
2012			Strong Star Certificate of Appreciation
2012			Patient and Family Centered Care Award

Overview

Dr. Chunkit Fung graduated Summa Cum Laude with Distinction in Research from Cornell University in 2000. He then went on to Medical School at the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA and graduated there with his M.D in 2004. He did his Internship and Residency from 2004 through 2007 at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He held the position of Instructor in the Department of Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania from 2007-2008 and then did his Fellowship in Hematology and Oncology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania from 2008-2011. In July of 2011, he came to the University of Rochester School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Hematology and Oncology. His clinical research interests are Genitourinary Oncology and Cancer Survivorship Research.

Selected Publications

Fung C, Vaughn DJ, Mitra N, Ciosek SL, Vardhanabhuti S, Nathanson KL, Kanetsky PA. Chemotherapy refractory testicular germ cell tumor is associated with a variant in Armadillo Repeat gene deleted in Velco-Cardio-Facial syndrome (ARVCF). Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2012; 3:163.

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Fung C, Fossa SD, Beard CJ, Travis LB. Second malignant neoplasms in testicular cancer survivors. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2012 Apr 1; 10(4):545-56.

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Smaldone MC, Fung C, Uzzo RG, Haas NB. Adjuvant and neoadjuvant therapies in high-risk renal cell carcinoma. Hematol Oncol Clin North Am. 2011 Aug; 25(4):765-91.

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Fung C, Vaughn DJ. Complications associated with chemotherapy in testicular cancer management. Nat Rev Urol. 2011 Apr; 8(4):213-22.

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