Grace K. Suh, MD, joins University of Chicago Medicine Cancer Center at Silver Cross

Grace K. Suh, MD, joins University of Chicago Medicine
Cancer Center at Silver Cross (Posted By tsimons,
Community Contributor / October 30, 2013)
Posted by tsimons, Community Contributor
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Grace K. Suh, MD, joins
University of Chicago
Medicine Cancer
Center at Silver Cross
Grace K. Suh, MD, a medical oncologist specializing
in breast cancers, issues related to women’s cancers,
and the care of patients with complex malignancies,
has joined the cancer care team at the University of
Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at
Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, Ill. She will also
see patients in the breast-medical oncology clinic at
the University of Chicago Medicine in Hyde Park.
The $21.6 million, 20,000-square-foot outpatient
cancer-treatment center on the Silver Cross Hospital
campus, which opened June 2012, brings UChicago
Medicine cancer specialists and easy access to
advanced, investigational therapies to a convenient
community-hospital setting.
An accomplished researcher, Suh has been a
principle investigator on several clinical trials and
translational research projects. She co-authored
several recent studies of lymphoma treatment and
several book chapters on ovarian cancer and other
gynecologic malignancies. She is also interested in
epidemiologic research to explore links between
environmental exposures and cancer risk, as well as
improved cancer prevention and early detection.
“This is an exciting opportunity,” Suh said. “The
University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive
Cancer Center maintains more active clinical trials
for the treatment of cancer than any other program
in Illinois. The growing Silver Cross cancer care
team is able to bring together outstanding
technology and access to the most promising
therapies in a comforting and convenient setting.”
Board certified in internal medicine and medical
oncology, Suh earned her BS in molecular
biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University
in 1999, after spending an extra year working with
researchers studying protein folding at Oxford
University. She was chosen as the “Outstanding
Woman of the Class of 2003” by Yale Medical
School.
She completed her internship at the Hospital of the
University of Pennsylvania, followed by a residency
in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital,
where she served as a clinical instructor for one
year. In 2010, she finished a fellowship in medical
oncology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson
Cancer Center.
She has received numerous honors for scholarship
and research, including the Paul and Daisy Soros
Fellowship for New Americans, a translational
research award from the American Association for
Cancer Research, and a Young Investigator Award
from the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
For more information visit www.uchospitals.edu/
cancercenter-sch/. To schedule an appointment with
Dr. Suh, call (855) UCM-1400.