Dr. Eugene Hwang is a pediatric neuro-oncologist at Children’s National Medical Center, where he is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Neuro-oncology Immunotherapeutics Program. After attending medical school at Duke University School of Medicine, he completed his pediatrics residency at Brown University and then hematology-oncology and neuro-oncology fellowships back at Duke University.
After joining the faculty at Children’s National, he has pushed early phase trial development, ranging from devices to early targeted agents. However, his primary focus has been optimizing immunotherapy for our patients as national lead on a checkpoint trial, a cytotoxic T-cell trial, and as Vice-chair of the Immunotherapy Working Group at the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium.
Observing the great cost that children with brain tumors bear due to treatment, he has led and also is focused on understanding and minimizing long-term side effects from either tumor or treatment, working with the CERN organization and collaborating on assessment of quality of life in both prospective and retrospective trials.
Dr. Hwang’s vision centers around aggressive, personalized, and novel treatment to cure children with brain tumors while promoting healing and quality of life.