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Dr. Cheng is the medical director of Doctor's Weight Loss, LLC (DrWLC), with home office in Columbia, SC and satellite office in Fort Mill, SC. DrWLC (previously Physician's Plan Weight Management Center, Columbia) has been operating in SC since 1995. Dr. Cheng joined PPWMC in 2001 and later reorganized to found DrWLC in 2003.
Dr. Cheng served in the United States Army as a
commissioned officer (Major) and an Army physician and
completed his Army duty in Dec. 2006. While in the Army, Dr. Cheng served in various positions including Chief and Medical Director of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Member of Risk Management Committee, Credentialling Committee, and Staff Physician of Soldier Readiness Program, Consultant to the Shaw Air Force Base Laboratory, and College of American Pathologist Inspection Team Leader for the Greenville SC Hospital Lab Inspection.
Before joining the United
States Army, Dr. Cheng was a senior physician scientist at Variagenics, a research organization affiliated with MIT and Harvard Medical School, in Cambridge, MA. Variagenics was later merged with Hyseq. At Variagenics, Dr. Cheng's main responsibilities include overseeing joint clinical studies with Massachusetts General Hospital and University of Pennsylvania Hospital, establishing a cancer tissue bank and developing protocols for tumor gene library. While at Variagenics, Dr. Cheng was invited as a host of a research conference held by the National Institutes of Health at Bethesda, MD on tumor gene library establishment using laser microdissection technology. Dr. Cheng was also a visiting scholar to the Netherlands TNO (national health institute) on a NATO Scholarship.
Dr. Cheng completed his specialty training at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD in hematology/pathology. While at NIH, his time was split between patient care and clinical research. He participated in several clinical research projects, in collaboration with the National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH (Dr Francis Collins' group) and research groups in Europe, Hong Kong and Japan.
Dr. Cheng completed residency training programs in internal medicine and laboratory medicine in Shanghai Medical University and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Dr. Cheng completed his medical school at Shanghai Medical University in Shanghai, China, with an MD degree.
Dr. Cheng completed his graduate study at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, AR with a Ph. D. in biochemistry and molecular biology.
Dr. Cheng published
several research papers in peer-reviewed
scientific and medical journals and was a
invited speaker at several scientific
conferences by Dr. Harold zur Hausen (2008
Nobel Laureate) of the German Cancer
Research Center, Shanghai Medical University
and China National Genome Center (Shanghai)
(upon invitation of Dr. Zhu Cheng, currently
the Health Minister of China).
Dr. Cheng is licensed to practice medicine in the States of South Carolina, Arkansas, Maryland and Virginia.
While in specialty training or in research, Dr. Cheng never gave up his interest in patient care. He has been practicing primary care, urgent care and emergency medicine in various hospital emergency departments and urgent care centers ever since he got his US medical license in 1994.
Dr. Cheng is Diplomate of the American Board of Geriatric Medicine, Fellow of American College of Specialists in Geriatrics, and Fellow of American College of Ethical Physicians. |
