Physician / Associate Professor
Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Edwin Choy was raised in Los Angeles, CA and was graduated from Yale College in 1993 with a B.S. in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. He received his MD and PhD in 2000 from New York University School of Medicine and then completed residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital. This was followed by a fellowship in medical oncology at the combined DFCI/MGH program. He then completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Upon completion of his fellowship, Dr. Choy joined the faculty in the Division of Hematology Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Choy has spent more than 25 years studying the genetics and biology of cancer, and he is currently the Program Director for Sarcoma Oncology at the MGH Cancer Center. His clinical practice and research focuses exclusively in the study and medical management of patients with sarcomas, gastrointestinal stromal tumors, chordomas, giant cell tumors, and desmoid tumors. He works closely with a team of world class surgical, orthopedic, and radiation oncologists as well as connective tissue pathologists and radiologists to provide optimal care for his patients. He directs a clinical trials program at the MGH Center for Sarcoma and Connective Tissue Oncology that includes approximately a dozen active phase 2 or 3 clinical trials. Dr. Choy is currently Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School.