Thomas Waddington, M.D.
I love to educate people. I enjoy working with my patients and teaching them about what the disease is they may have and what we are going to do about it.
Thomas Waddington, M.D., has known since age 5 that he was going to be a doctor.
A native Southern Californian, he specializes in the relatively new field of interventional pulmonology, using the most advanced tools to diagnose and treat lung cancer and other diseases. "I want to help those people who are fighting back or even those who've chosen hospice care and need help with their quality of life," he says.
Dr. Waddington received his medical degree from St. Louis University School of Medicine and continued his training at University of California Irvine and Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. He completed a diverse series of fellowships in pulmonary and critical care, as well as interventional pulmonology.
Dr. Waddington has held a number of pulmonary care positions at prestigious facilities in San Diego, Phoenix and State College, Pennsylvania. He is excited to return to City of Hope where he spent part of 2005-2006 as a young trainee, and he welcomes the opportunity to focus on cancer care medicine within City of Hope's unique environment.
2000, M.D., Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
1994, B.S., Physiology, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, California
2006-2007, Interventional Pulmonary Medicine, Arizona Pulmonary Specialist, LTD Department of Interventional Pulmonary Program, Phoenix, Arizona
2003-2006, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, University of California Irvine, Department of Pulmonary & Critical Care, Orange, California
2001-2003, Internal Medicine, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
2000-2001, Internal Medicine, University of California Irvine Medical Center Department of Medicine, Orange, California
2019-present, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, City of Hope, Duarte, California
2004 CHEST Foundation Young Investigator Awards: Bronchoscopy with High Resolution OCT Imaging and Autofluorescence Bronchoscopy
2004 Chest conference: Abstract
Neuro-Intensivist Care Unite Doctor of the month at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian for December 2008
Neuro-Intensive Care United Doctor of the month at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian for May 2008
CSULB 49er: Innovation Challenge