Dr Wendy Chen

Wendy Y. Chen MD, MPH earned her medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and her Master’s of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. Currently, she is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is a practicing medical oncologist at the Breast Oncology Center at the Dana Farber Institute and conducts epidemiology research with the Nurses’ Health Study at the Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her research interests include breast cancer risk modeling and hormonal influences on breast cancer risk as well as lifestyle and nutritional factors that affect breast cancer recurrence and survival. She has published many manuscripts on breast cancer epidemiology and has co-authored a book on breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. She is a medical consultant to the Susan G. Komen and Uptodate© websites.