{"id":277162,"date":"2026-03-31T12:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/doctors\/waihong-chung-md-phd\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T05:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:01:45","slug":"waihong-chung-md-phd","status":"publish","type":"doctors","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/doctors\/waihong-chung-md-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Waihong Chung MD, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"grid\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 maincopy blogCore\">\n<p>Waihong Chung, MD, PhD se licenci\u00f3 en Ciencias con menci\u00f3n especial en Biolog\u00eda por la Universidad de Virginia en Charlottesville, VA.  Posteriormente se licenci\u00f3 en Medicina y se doctor\u00f3 en Patobiolog\u00eda en la Facultad de Medicina Warren Alpert de la Universidad Brown de Providence, RI. Tras completar su residencia en medicina interna en el Hospital Mount Sinai de Nueva York, el Dr. Chung ampli\u00f3 su formaci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica y complet\u00f3 una beca de investigaci\u00f3n en la divisi\u00f3n de Gastroenterolog\u00eda de la Universidad Brown y el Hospital Rhode Island de Providence, RI. El Dr. Chung ha publicado extensamente en diversas revistas cient\u00edficas revisadas por expertos y sus investigaciones tambi\u00e9n han aparecido en los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n nacionales, incluido el U.S. News.\n<\/p>\n<p>El Dr. Chung se sinti\u00f3 atra\u00eddo inicialmente por la medicina debido a su gran inter\u00e9s por la biolog\u00eda y la fisiolog\u00eda.  Mientras estudiaba medicina, el Dr. Chung se dio cuenta de que nada llenaba su vida con un mayor sentido de prop\u00f3sito y satisfacci\u00f3n que escuchar a sus pacientes, reflexionar sobre sus experiencias y guiarles en su proceso de recuperaci\u00f3n.  Cree firmemente en la medicina basada en pruebas y en la toma de decisiones compartida.  Su objetivo como m\u00e9dico es ayudar a sus pacientes a desmitificar sus enfermedades, digerir la investigaci\u00f3n cl\u00ednica pertinente y dise\u00f1ar un plan de tratamiento que sea coherente con sus objetivos y valores generales. El Dr. Chung ha recibido innumerables elogios de sus pacientes a lo largo de su formaci\u00f3n por su capacidad \u00fanica para explicar incluso los conceptos m\u00e9dicos m\u00e1s complejos de una manera inequ\u00edvoca y accesible.\n<\/p>\n<p>Cuando no est\u00e1 trabajando, al Dr. Chung le gusta practicar quahogging en verano y montar en trineo con sus hijos en invierno, as\u00ed como dedicarse a diferentes artes culinarias.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":287836,"template":"","specialty":[101],"language":[],"keywords":[],"address":[439],"class_list":["post-277162","doctors","type-doctors","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","specialties-gastroenterology","addresses-65_212"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Waihong Chung MD, PhD - Southcoast Health<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/doctors\/waihong-chung-md-phd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Waihong Chung MD, PhD - Southcoast Health\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Waihong Chung, MD, PhD earned his Bachelor of Science with High Distinction in Biology from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. 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