M. Connie Nguyen,
M.D
 A native of Saigon, Vietnam, Dr. Nguyen (pronounced Win) left Vietnam in the final hours before Saigon fell to the communists in 1975. After living in a refugee camp, her family settled in California.In 1987, Dr. Nguyen graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of California in Riverside, Calif., with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Sciences. In 1990, she received her medical degree from the University of California (UCLA) in Los Angeles, Calif. Her undergraduate honors include Phi Beta Kappa, University of California Regents Scholar and the Anna Watkins Award for the most outstanding graduating senior at U.C. Riverside. Her medical school honors include the World Health Organization Graduate Fellowship, the Helen Thaler Medical Scholarship and the Hortense Fishbaugh Medical Scholarship. After completing an internship at UCLA School of Medicine in 1991, Dr. Nguyen completed a three-year residency in Radiation Therapy at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, Calif. Dr. Nguyen was Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Radiation Therapy Department of Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda, Calif. from 1994 to 1996. Her subspecialties included pediatric, lung, gastrointestinal, sarcoma and brachytherapy. From February 1997 to December 1998, Dr. Nguyen served as Medical Director of the Bay Area Regional Cancer Center in Pinole, Calif. She joined the Department of Radiation Oncology at St. Francis Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii in December 1998. Her specialties were prostate implant and HDR brachytherapy, conformal therapy and gamma knife. In 2001 Dr. Nguyen joined The Cancer Center, where she heads up the prostate seed implant and brachytherapy program. Dr. Nguyen also works with other radiation therapy modalities. She is a member of the American Society of Therapeutic Radiation and Oncology and is certified by the American Board of Radiology in Radiation Oncology. Dr. Nguyen has spoken at the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology, the Radiology Society of North America and the Seventh International Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Symposium. She is co-author of numerous published scientific studies in the field of radiation oncology. Dr. Nguyen speaks English, Spanish and Vietnamese.
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