{"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\/pt\/doctors\/waihong-chung-md-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Waihong Chung M\u00e9dico, Doutoramento"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"grid\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 maincopy blogCore\">\n<p>Waihong Chung, MD, PhD obteve o seu Bacharelato em Ci\u00eancias com Alta Distin\u00e7\u00e3o em Biologia na Universidade da Virg\u00ednia em Charlottesville, VA.  Obteve a sua licenciatura em medicina e o seu doutoramento em Patobiologia na Warren Alpert Medical School da Brown University em Providence, RI. Depois de completar a sua resid\u00eancia em medicina interna no Mount Sinai Hospital em Nova Iorque, NY, o Dr. Chung continuou a sua forma\u00e7\u00e3o m\u00e9dica e completou uma bolsa de investiga\u00e7\u00e3o na divis\u00e3o de Gastroenterologia da Brown University e do Rhode Island Hospital em Providence, RI. O Dr. Chung publicou extensivamente em v\u00e1rias revistas cient\u00edficas revistas por pares e a sua investiga\u00e7\u00e3o foi tamb\u00e9m divulgada nos meios de comunica\u00e7\u00e3o social nacionais, incluindo o U.S. News.\n<\/p>\n<p>O Dr. Chung foi inicialmente atra\u00eddo para o campo da medicina pelo seu forte interesse em biologia e fisiologia.  Enquanto frequentava a faculdade de medicina, o Dr. Chung apercebeu-se de que nada mais preenchia a sua vida com um maior sentido de objetivo e satisfa\u00e7\u00e3o do que ouvir os seus pacientes, refletir sobre as suas experi\u00eancias e orient\u00e1-los durante o seu processo de recupera\u00e7\u00e3o.  Ele acredita firmemente na medicina baseada em provas e na tomada de decis\u00f5es partilhadas.  O seu objetivo como m\u00e9dico \u00e9 ajudar os seus pacientes a desmistificar as suas doen\u00e7as, a digerir a investiga\u00e7\u00e3o cl\u00ednica relevante e a conceber um plano de tratamento que seja consistente com os seus objectivos e valores gerais. O Dr. Chung recebeu in\u00fameros elogios dos seus pacientes ao longo da sua forma\u00e7\u00e3o pela sua capacidade \u00fanica de explicar at\u00e9 os conceitos m\u00e9dicos mais complexos de uma forma inequ\u00edvoca e acess\u00edvel.\n<\/p>\n<p>Quando n\u00e3o est\u00e1 a trabalhar, o Dr. Chung gosta de andar de quahogging no ver\u00e3o e de andar de tren\u00f3 com os seus filhos no inverno, e tamb\u00e9m de se entregar a diferentes artes culin\u00e1rias.<\/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\/pt\/doctors\/waihong-chung-md-phd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"pt_PT\" \/>\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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