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Latest News: Dr. Singhal is leading an initiative to bring together global cancer experts to confer on complex cases. She has applied the latest video networking technology to bring together care providers at El Camino Hospital and the City of Hope National Medical Center in LA in the first long distance joint tumor board. The NBC news clip at right covers the event. |
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Dr. Singhal serves as Director of the Cancer Center at El Camino Hospital. Her vision shapes the approach in the center, creating an integrated, easy-to-navigate cancer care center. Patients are treated by doctors, nurses, and staff at the hospital who work hard to collaborate, coordinate and provide excellent care to the patient. Cancer Center personnel follow the latest national guidelines for care, and use the latest therapies. They discuss complex cases together in cross-disciplinary tumor board meetings. The goal is simply to provide excellent care for patients focused on patients’ needs. |
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As Medical Director of the Cancer Center, Dr. Singhal has initiated a rigorous Tumor Board program, Grand Rounds visits by renown physicians from around the US, and collaborations with academic cancer centers including UCSF, Stanford, City of Hope National Medical Center, and the University of Washington.
Dr. Singhal has extensive training in the cellular and molecular bases for cancer as well as the macroscopic aspects of the disease, providing Dr. Singhal a comprehensive view of cancer and a better opportunity to treat the disease systemically and highly coordinated with other members of the medical team. She completed her Surgical Oncology Fellowship at the City of Hope National Cancer Center in Duarte (Los Angeles) with both research and clinical segments. Her research there focused on discovering the interactions of chemotherapy and a wide spectrum of herbal agents, and the impact on liver function. She completed her Surgical Residency at the University of Washington in Seattle in one of the nation’s top surgical training programs. Dr. Singhal completed her MD and PhD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She completed her PhD there in the department of Molecular Pharmacology with the thesis, Studies in the Regulation of the mdr1b gene by Progesterone. |
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