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University of California, Los Angeles, BA, BS, 1987, English Literature, Biology
University of California, Los Angeles, 1991, MD
New York Hospital, Cornell University, 1991-1996, Surgical Residency
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, 1997, Surgical Oncology Fellowship
University of California, Berkeley, 2006, MPH, Biostatistics/Epidemiology

Hwang ES and Wright EM: Specificity and kinetics of Na/a-methyl-d-glucopyranoside cotransport across rabbit intestinal brush border membranes. The Physiologist 1987; 30:156.

Coady MJ, Ikeda TS, Hwang ES, Hediger JE and Wright EM: Transport properties of a cloned Na/glucose cotransporter. Satellite on Structure, Function, and Regulation of Membrane Transport Proteins, 1987.

Ikeda TS, Hwang ES, Coady MJ, Hirayama BA, Hediger MA, Wright EM. Characterization of a Na+/glucose cotransporter cloned from rabbit small intestine. Journal of Membrane Biology 1989; 110(1):87-95.

Hwang ES, Hirayama BA, Wright EM. Distribution of the SGLT1 Na+/glucose cotransporter and mRNA along the crypt-villus axis of rabbit small intestine. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communication 1991; 181(3):1208-17.

Sadoff J, Hwang ES, Rosenfeld D, Ettinger L, Spigland, N: Surgical pancreatic complications induced by L-asparaginase. Journal of Pediatric Surgery 1996, 32(6):860-863.

Hwang ES, Gerald W, Wollner N, Meyers P, La Quaglia MP. Leiomyosarcoma in childhood and adolescence. Annals of Surgical Oncology 1997; 4(3):223-7.

Hwang ES, Cody HS, 3rd. Does the proven benefit of mammography extend to breast cancer patients over age 70? Southern Medical Journal 1998; 91(6):522-6.

Hwang ES, Samli B, Tran KN, Rosen PP, Borgen PI, Van Zee KJ. Volume of resection in patients treated with breast conservation for ductal carcinoma in situ. Annals of Surgical Oncology 1998; 5(8):757-63.

Kuerer HM, Hwang ES, Anthony JP, et al. Current national health insurance coverage policies for breast and ovarian cancer prophylactic surgery. Annals of Surgical Oncology 2000; 7(5):325-32.

Waldman FM, Hwang ES, Etzell J, Eng C, DeVries S, Bennington J, Thor AD. Genomic alterations in tubular breast carcinomas. Human Pathology 32(2):222-226, 2001.

Esserman L, Kaplan E, Partridge S, Tripathy D, Rugo H, Park J, Hwang ES, Kuerer H, Sudilovsky D, Lu Y, Hylton N. MRI phenotype is associated with response to doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide neoadjuvant chemotherapy in stage III breast cancer. Annals of Surgical Oncology 2001 Jul;8(6):549-59

Foster RD, Esserman LJ, Anthony JP, Hwang ES, Do H. Skin-Sparing Mastectomy and Immediate Breast Reconstruction; A Prospective Cohort Study for the Treatment of Advanced Stages of Breast Carcinoma. Annals of Surgical Oncology 2002 Jun, 9(5):462-6.

Wu CT, Leong SPL, Morita ET, Treseler PA, Esserman LJ, Hwang ES, Kuerer HM, Santos CL, Leong SPL. Failure to harvest sentinel lymph nodes identified by preoperative lymphoscintigraphy in breast cancer patients. The Breast Journal 2003 9(2) 86-91.

J. E. Korkola, S. DeVries, J. Fridlyand, E. S. Hwang, A. L. Estep, Y. Y. Chen, K. L. Chew, S. H. Dairkee, R. M. Jensen, and F. M. Waldman. Differentiation of lobular versus ductal breast carcinomas by expression microarray analysis. Cancer research 63 (21), 7167 (2003).

Hwang ES, Kinkel K, Esserman LJ, Hylton N. The clinical utility of MRI in patients diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast. Annals of Surgical Oncology 2003 May-Jun;10(4):381-8.

Korkola JE, DeVries S, Hwang ES, Fridlyand J, Estep ALH, Chen YY, Chew KL, Dairke S, Jensen RM, and Waldman FM. Distinguishing Ductal vs. Lobular Breast Carcinomas by Expression Microarray Analysis. Clinical Cancer Research 2003 Nov; 63(21):7167-75.

Hwang ES, Esserman LJ. Primary hormonal therapy for ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 2004 Jan;11(1 Suppl):37S-43S.

Esserman LJ, MD, Sepucha K, Ozanne E, Hwang ES. Applying the Neoadjuvant Paradigm to DCIS. Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2004 Jan;11(1 Suppl):28S-36S.

Nyante SJ, Chen YY, Sandy DeVries S, Hwang ES. Array-based comparative genomic hybridization of DCIS and synchronous invasive lobular cancer. Human Pathology. 35(6): 759-763, 2004.

Park C, Seid P, Morita E, Iwanaga BS, Weinberg V, Quivey J, Hwang ES, Esserman LJ, Leong SP. Internal mammary sentinel lymph node mapping for invasive breast cancer: implications for staging and treatment. Breast Journal. 2005 Jan-Feb; 11(1): 29-33.

Hwang ES, Chew T, Farren G, Shiboski S, Wrensch M. Risk factors for estrogen receptor positive breast cancers. Archives of Surgery. 2005 Jan;140(1):58-62.

Foster RD, Hansen SL, Esserman LJ, Hwang ES, Ewing C, Lane K, Anthony JP. Safety of immediate transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous breast reconstruction for patients with locally advanced disease. Archives of Surgery. 2005 Feb; 140(2):196-8; discussion 199-200.

Hwang ES, Devries S, Chew KL, Moore D, Kerlikoswke K, Thor A, Ljung BM and Waldman FM. Patterns of Chromosomal Alternations in Breast Ductal Carcinoma in Situ. Clinical Cancer Research. 2004 Aug 1; 10(15): 5160-7.

Hwang ES, Nyante SJ, Chen YY, Moore D, Korkola JE, DeVries S, Esserman LJ, and Waldman FM. Clonality of lobular carcinoma in situ and synchronous invasive lobular cancer. Cancer, 2004; 100:2562-72.

Lang JE, Esserman LJ, Ewing CA, Rugo HS, Lane KT, Leong SP, Hwang ES. Accuracy of selective lymphadenectomy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy: effect of clinical node status at presentation. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2004 Dec; 199(6): 856-62.

Misell LM, Hwang ES, Au A, Esserman LJ and Hellerstein MK. Development of a novel method for measuring in vivo breast epithelial cell proliferation in humans. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment. 2005 Feb; 89(3): 257-64.

Wa, C, Chen YY, DeVries S, Waldman FM, Hwang ES. Clinical Application of array-based comparative genomic hybridization to define the relationship between multiple synchronous tumors. Mod Pathology, 2005 April; 18(4): 591-7.

Tan YY, Fan YG, Lu Y, Hwang S, Ewing C, Esserman L, Morita E, Treseler P, Leong SP. Ratio of Positive to Total Number of Sentinel Nodes Predicts Nonsentinel Node Status in Breast Cancer Patients. The Breast Journal. 2005, 11: 248-253.

Partridge SC, Gibbs JE, Lu Y, Esserman LJ, Tripathy D, Wolverton D, Rugo H, Hwang ES, Ewing C, Hylton NM. Breast MRI Tumor Volume Measurements Predict Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Recurrence-Free Survival. American Journal of Roentgenology, 2005 Jun;184(6):1774-81.

S. Devries, S. Nyante, J. Korkola, R. Segraves, K. Nakao, D. Moore, H. Bae, M. Wilhelm, S. Hwang, and F. Waldman. Array-based comparative genomic hybridization from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded breast tumors. J Mol Diagn 7 (1), 65 (2005).

Tan YY, Wu CT, Fan YG, Hwang S, Ewing C, Lane K, Esserman L, Lu Y, Treseler P, Morita E, Leong SP. Primary tumor characteristics predict sentinel lymph node macrometastasis in breast cancer. Breast J. 2005 Sep-Oct;11(5):338-43.

Fan YG, Tan YY, Wu CT, Treseler P, Lu Y, Chan CW, Hwang S, Ewing C, Esserman L, Morita E, Leong SP. The effect of sentinel node tumor burden on non-sentinel node status and recurrence rates in breast cancer. Ann Surg Oncol. 2005 Sep;12(9):705-11. Erratum in: Ann Surg Oncol. 2005 Nov;12(11):952.

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