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Dr. Jared Weiss is an Associate Professor of Clinical Research for Hematology/Oncology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, NC. He completed fellowship in Hematology and Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania and residency in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. He received his Doctor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, CT and his B.S. in neuroscience at Brown University, in Providence, RI.
Not Your Father's Squamous Lung Cancer - Currently Available Treatment Options
Presented by the
Global Resource for Advancing Cancer Education
in collaboration with
UNC Lineberger and the Lung Cancer Initiative of North Carolina
On Friday, November 4th, 2016, in collaboration with the UNC Lineberger and the Lung Cancer Initiative of North Carolina, GRACE presented 'Not Your Father's Squamous Lung Cancer', webcast live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In this second video of the series, Jared Weiss, MD joins us to discuss currently available treatment options. We would like to thank the following companies for their support of this program:
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