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Stanley P.L. Leong, MD
Dr. Stanley P.L. Leong is a professor of surgery at the UCSF/Mt. Zion Medical Center, where he has been practicing since 1991. He is also Director of the Sentinel Lymph Node program for both melanoma and breast cancer at UCSF. Dr. Leong is an expert in performing selective sentinel lymph node dissections on both melanoma and breast cancer patients, and he is conducting research on the role of sentinel lymph nodes in cancer and the impact of micrometastasis. Dr. Leong regularly conducts training workshops for other physicians on sentinel lymph node mapping. He travels extensively, presenting findings on cancer research to colleagues around the world. He has published many papers in medical journals, edited twelve books in oncology and contributed chapters to over thirty books. Dr. Leong received his medical degree in 1974 from Tulane University, and completed his surgical residency and research fellowships at several sites from 1974 to 1983, including New Orleans, Boston, Irvine, Calif. and Duate, Calif. He then spent three years as a surgical oncology fellow and cancer expert at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., part of the National Institutes of Health. He was an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Arizona's College of Medicine and moved to San Francisco in 1991 to become an associate professor of surgery at UCSF. He became a full professor in 1997. Dr. Leong who lives in Marin County is married and has two children. In his spare time he enjoys roaming the hills and beaches in Marin with his family.
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