Dr. Herbert Chen has a vision of changing the lives of those living with endocrine cancers.
The University of Wisconsin Medical School shares that vision, and Chen was a star surgeon that it had to have. David Mahvi, chief of surgical oncology, said that when the school recruited Chen in 2000 it didn’t even need another endocrine surgeon.
“We actually didn’t need anybody doing what he did, but he was the best person finishing training … in the country that year,” Mahvi said.
Attracting the best and the brightest has helped the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center earn its distinction throughout the Midwest and the nation as one of the leading innovators in cancer research. In July, for the 13th year in a row, U.S. News and World Report ranked University Hospital in the top 50, out of 2,000, of the nation’s major teaching hospitals in its 2005 edition of “America’s Best Hospitals.” It is the only comprehensive cancer center, as designated by the National Cancer Institute, in Wisconsin.