Dr. Nguyen received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Harvard University, earning Cum Laude in physics. He attended the University of California School of Medicine at San Diego, where he was recognized for his research in tumor immunology and melanoma and honored with an NIH research fellowship. He completed an Internal Medicine internship at Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation’s first hospital co-founded by Benjamin Franklin, and a Radiation Oncology residency in Philadelphia at Fox Chase Cancer Center, the nation’s first cancer hospital. Prior to returning to California, he was an assistant professor at the University of Tennessee, where he worked with Dr. David Townsend, co-inventor of the PET-CT, to determine the utility of functional imaging in assessing early treatment responses to chemotherapy and radiation therapy for various cancers.

Dr. Nguyen joined City of Hope in 2006 as an assistant professor, where he continues his pursuit of PET-CT research and the development of image-guided radiation therapy. His clinical expertise focuses on cancers of the prostate, lung, and breast, and the use of anatomic and functional imaging to target radiation therapy and assess treatment outcomes to therapy. He has authored eight peer-reviewed publications and presented his research at national and international meetings, where he was recognized with several awards for his work.