David W. Cheng, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology; Chief, Nuclear Medicine; Director, Nuclear Medicine Fellowship Program; Co-Medical Director, Yale University PET Center
Specialty
Diagnostic Radiology: Nuclear Medicine
Programs & Centers
Thoracic Oncology Program, Cancer Center, Yale, Melanoma Program, Pediatric Thyroid Center, Hematology Program
Clinical Interests
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging (including oncology and benign conditions); general nuclear medicine studies, including bone, gallium, leukocyte, Meta-Iodo-Benzyl-Guanidine (MIBG), octreotide, liver-spleen, renal, brain perfusion, lung ventilation and perfusion, GI bleed, Hydroxy Iminodiacetic Acid (HIDA), thyroid disease and cancer diagnostic studies; radioisotope therapies, including radioiodine for thyroid cancer, zevalin, samarium and octreotide
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Cancers Treated:
Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma,
Lung,
Lymphoma (Non-Hodgkin's),
Thyroid Accepts New Patients? Yes Patient Type: Adult, Child Accepts appointments from patients or physicians |
Board Certifications
- Nuclear Medicine, Board Certified 2000, Recertified 2008
Education & Training
- Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, Nuclear Medicine, 2001
- Resident, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY, Nuclear Medicine, 2000
- Resident, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY, Internal Medicine , 1998
- M.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1996
- Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1992
Schedule an Appointment
Appointment Phone
(203) 200-5610
Appointment Fax
Office Phone
(203) 200-5180
Office Fax
(203) 688-3501
david.cheng@yale.edu
Locations
Yale Nuclear Medicine
Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale - New Haven
South Frontage Road and Park Street
2nd Floor
New Haven, CT 06510
(203) 200-5610 - Appts.
Yale-New Haven Shoreline Medical Center
111 Goose Lane
Guilford, CT 06437
(203) 453-7272 - Information
