Waun Ki Hong, a clinical oncologist and researcher who retired after a long career at MD Anderson Cancer Center and who was the former president of the American Association for Cancer Research, died last week on January 2. He was 76 years old.
Born in South Korea in 1942, Hong studied medicine at Yonsei University School of Medicine before serving as a South Korean Air Force flight surgeon in the Vietnam War. After his military service, he completed an internship at Bronx/Lebanon Hospital in New York City, followed by a residency at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Boston and an oncology fellowship at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
After completing his training, Hong became the chief of medical oncology at the VA Medical Center, where he stayed for nine years. In 1984, he moved to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to lead the Section of ...
