Professional Information
- Profession
- Physician
- Degree
- MD
- Primary Area of Practice
- Oncology, Hematology/Oncology
- Bio
- Dr. Jack West is a medical oncologist and Medical Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program at the Swedish Cancer Institute in Seattle, Washington. He also serves as President of the medical education website OncTalk, LLC and the Global Resource for Advancing Cancer Education (GRACE).
Dr. West received an M. Phil. in Experimental Biology from Cambridge University on a Fulbright Scholarship before returning to the US to undertake his medical training at Harvard Medical School in Boston, where he earned his MD magna cum laude and conducted research as a Howard Hughes Medical Student Fellow. He stayed in Boston for his internship and residency in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, then moved to Seattle, Washington for his fellowship in medical oncology at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/University of Washington. He moved to the Swedish Cancer Institute in Seattle in late 2002, where he directs the medical oncology component of thoracic oncology program. In 2007, he was named one of the Best Doctors in Seattle by his regional medical colleagues.
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Profile Details
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Site Groups
- Physician, Doctor, Internist, Health Executive, Oncologist

