Dr. Peter Brett on Blogger: 2019

Friday, September 27, 2019

The Active Oncology Projects of Health Volunteers Overseas

Fighting cancer
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An oncology practitioner at the Commonwealth Health Care Corp (CHCC) Center on the Northern Mariana Island of Saipan, Dr. Peter Brett builds upon a medical career that spans more than three decades. To help underserved patients, Dr. Peter Brett has volunteered as an oncologist with Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO).

Since 1984, HVO has been addressing global health workforce deficiencies through a range of professional training and development initiatives. Oncology is just one of roughly a dozen HVO medical specialties.

The current oncology projects of HVO include training and mentoring initiatives at the National Cancer Hospital in:

- Hanoi, Vietnam;

- the National Academy of Medical Sciences in Kathmandu, Nepal;

- the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala, Uganda;

- the Bhaktapur Cancer Hospital in Bhaktapur, Nepal;

- and multiple medical centers in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

HVO also operates in Thimphu, Bhutan, where volunteers participate in the daily activities of the oncology unit of the National Referral Hospital and deliver regular hospital staff lectures/presentations on a variety of cancer-related topics.

About Dr. Peter Brett

An accomplished internal medicine and oncology specialist based in in Northern California, Dr. Peter Brett draws on more than 25 years of experience. Most recently, he served as oncology medical director at Sutter Medical Group of the Redwoods in Sonoma County for nearly a decade. Dr. Peter Brett has also been a principal investigator in medical oncology trials.

Dr. Brett earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and biological sciences from Stanford University before going on to acquire an MD at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed his professional training with an internal medicine residency at Stanford University Hospital and a fellowship in medical oncology at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.

An active member of his field, Dr. Peter Brett has regularly appeared on San Francisco Magazine’s list of Bay Area Top Oncologists and is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine in both internal medicine and medical oncology. He also stands out for his commitment to others, participating in the oncology program of the Health Volunteers Overseas initiative in Hue, Vietnam. In addition, Dr. Brett received an award from the Sonoma County Medical Association for his efforts leading the North Bay Melanoma Program.