Education
Breast Oncology Surgery Fellowship with Oncoplastic Emphasis (August 2020-July 2021)
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
General Surgery Internship and Residency (July 2015-June 2020)
Henry Ford Macomb Hospital, Clinton Township, Michigan
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (2011-2015)
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences School of Osteopathic Medicine, Yakima, Washington
Bachelor of Science, Biochemistry (2005-2009)
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
Minors: Mathematics, Molecular Biology
Honors College, Magna Cum Laude
Biography
Education
Breast Oncology Surgery Fellowship with Oncoplastic Emphasis (August 2020-July 2021)
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
General Surgery Internship and Residency (July 2015-June 2020)
Henry Ford Macomb Hospital, Clinton Township, Michigan
Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (2011-2015)
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences School of Osteopathic Medicine, Yakima, Washington
Bachelor of Science, Biochemistry (2005-2009)
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington
Minors: Mathematics, Molecular Biology
Honors College, Magna Cum Laude
Experience
Breast Surgical Oncologist (October 2024- Present)
PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center; Bellingham, Washington
Breast Surgical Oncologist (September 2021-July 2024)
Virginia Mason Franciscan Health Hospital; Seattle, Washington
Virginia Mason General Surgery Residency Clinical Faulty (Sept 2021- July 2024)
Michigan State University Clinical Faulty (July 2015 – July 2020)
Honors & Awards
2023, 2024 Seattle Met Top Doctor: Breast Surgical Oncology
05/2021 American Society of Breast Surgery 2021 Conference: Best Poster Award
05/2013 American Society of Hypertension Young Investigator-in-Training Abstract Competition Finalist
2013-2015 Osteopathic Foundation of Central WA Golf Scholarship
03/2013 Student Osteopathic Medical Association Teget Leadership Scholarship
2012-2013 Osteopathic Foundation of Central Washington A.T. Still Scholarship
10/2009 SACNAS Science Conference Research Travel Scholarship
04/2009 WSU Honors College Thesis Excellence Recognition
05/2008 Dr. Edward Myer Endowed Scholarship in Pre-Medicine
05/2008 WSU Honors College Jensen Scholarship
06/2007 WSU Center Integrated Biology Research Fellowship
05/2005 WSU Distinguished Regents Scholar
Publications
Le, QP. Identifying and Managing Patients at High Risk for Developing Breast Cancer. Virginia Mason Franciscan Health Bulletin. Winter 2022; 72:2.85-90.
Cole S, Frankel R, Skeff K. The Medical Interview: The Three Function Approach to Relationship-Centered Care (4th Ed), Philadelphia: Elsevier. (Book chapter contributor)
Lezotte J, Le QP, Roham A, Sachinder H. Adventitial Cystic Disease: Complicated and Uncomplicated. Ann Vasc Surg. Jan 2018; 46:370.e13-e15.
Mitsuya M, Le QP, Gassner M, Sachinder H. (2016). Monographs in Clinical Diagnosis- Volume I: Family and Community Medicine: Peripheral Vascular Disease. Retrieved from http://www.telemedEdu.org.
Tucker NR, Middleton RC, Le QP, and Shelden EA. HSFI is essential to the protection of zebrafish brain and retinal tissues against hypoxia/reperfusion injury. PLoS ONE. 2011;6(7): e22268.
Abstracts/Posters
Suen A, Pham HT, Suen K, Le QP, et. al. Intra-Operative Radiotherapy (IORT) in Breast Conserving Therapy in Early State Breast Cancer and DCIS. ASTRO 2023 Conference, San Diego, CA, October 2023.
Le QP, Persing S, Madans AR, Schell J, Silverstein MJ, Lopez J. High-Risk Breast Lesions Found on Core Needle Biopsy: Which Ones to Excise?. American Society of Breast Surgery Annual Conference, Orlando, FL, April 2021.
Burns J, Le QP, Petersen L, Nathasnon DS, Chen Y, Ylrich E, Proctor E, Susick LL, Bensenhaver JM. Compliance to Anti-Hormonal Therapy After Omission of Radiotherapy following Breast Conservation Surgery in Older Favorable Patient Subgroup. American Society of Breast Surgery Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, May 2019.
Nahirniak P, Le QP, Eisner H, Sullivan R. Scrotal Abscess due to Perforation within Amyand Hernia. Annual Clinical Assembly of Osteopathic Surgeon, Denver, Colorado, October 2019.
Le QP, Meyer PM, and Elliott WJ. Traditional and network meta-analyses of mortality and heart failure hospitalization in clinical trials comparing beta-blockers vs. placebo in heart failure patients with diminished left ventricular function. Journal of Clinical Hypertension. 2013;15: A1-2. Abstract.
Tucker NR, Middleton RC, Le QP, and Shelden EA. HSFI is essential to the protection of zebrafish brain and retinal tissues against hypoxia/reperfusion injury. Annual Conference of the American Society for Cell Biology Conference, Philadelphia, PA, December 2010.
Tucker NR, Le QP, and Shelden EA. Hsp27 is mechanically linked to titin in heat stressed cardiomyocytes. St. Jude National Graduate Symposium, Memphis, TN, April 2010.
Le QP and Shelden EA. Expression patterns of heat shock protein 27 (Hsp27) in zebrafish (Danio rerio) tissues in response to heat-induced stress. Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science National Conference—Improving the Human Condition: Challenges for Interdisciplinary Science, Dallas, TX, October 2009. Abstract.
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Presentations
3/2023 Washington State University Honors College, Student Thesis Defense , Pullman, WA.
“Honors Thesis AdvisorThe Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Breast Cancer Screening Disparities between Caucasian and African American Populations”
2022-2023 Virginia Mason Franciscan General Surgery Resident Lecture, Seattle, WA.
“Malignant and Benign Breast Diseases”
10/2021 CommonSpirit Health National Grand Rounds Presentation, Seattle, WA.
“Managing Patients at Elevated Risk for Breast Cancer”
09/2021 Virginia Mason Franciscan Health Grand Rounds Presentation, Seattle, WA.
“Identifying and Managing Patients at High-Risk for Breast Cancer”
4/2021 American Society of Breast Surgery Annual Conference, Orlando, FL. Oral Poster Presentation
“High-Risk Breast Lesions Found on Core Needle Biopsy: Which Ones to Excise?”
06/2020 2020 Vascular Society Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada. “How I Do It” Video Presentation.
“Crossover Left Common Femoral to Right Superficial. Femoral Artery Bypass Graft Using Lateral Approach”
04/2020 American Society of Breast Surgery Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV. Poster Presentation.
“Comparing Systemic Breast Cancer Metastasis and Survival in White and African American Women”
02/2020 Michigan Vascular Surgery Society, Novi, MI. Oral Presentation.
“Crossover Left Common Femoral to Right Superficial. Femoral Artery Bypass Graft Using Lateral Approach”
10/2019 8th International Congress on Cancer Metastasis, San Francisco, CA. Oral Presentation.
“High Risk for Developing Breast Cancer: Differences Between White and African Women”
10/2019 American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 2019, San Francisco, CA.
“Mediastinal Mass Video Presentation”
10/2019 Annual Clinical Assembly of Osteopathic Surgeon, Denver, CO. Poster Presentation.
“Pseudoaneurysm as the Cause of Rectal Bleeding after Low Anterior Resection Surgery”
03/2019 Society of Surgical Oncology 72nd Annual Cancer Symposium, San Diego, CA. Poster Presentation.
“High Risk for Developing Breast Cancer: Differences Between White and African Women”
05/2018 25th Annual Henry Ford Health System Medical Education Regional Research Forum, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI. Poster Presentation.
“Meckel’s Diverticulum: A Rare Cause of Enterocolonic Fistula with High-Grade Small Bowel Obstruction in a Pediatric Patient”
09/2016 Annual Clinical Assembly of Osteopathic Surgeon, Phoenix, Arizona. Poster Presentation.
“Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome: A Rare Cause of Duodenal Obstruction”
03/2015 Henry Ford Macomb Hospital Resident Research Forum, Clinton Township, MI. Poster Presentation.
“Adventitial Cystic Disease: A Case Series”
“Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome: A Rare Cause of Duodenal Obstruction”
05/2013 American Society of Hypertension 28th Annual Scientific meeting and Exposition, San Francisco, CA.Young Investigator-in-Training Abstract Competition. Oral Presentation. “Traditional and network meta-analyses of mortality and heart failure hospitalization in clinical trials comparing beta-blockers vs. placebo in heart failure patients with diminished left ventricular function.”
04/2009 Washington State University Honors College Thesis, Pullman, WA. Oral Presentation.
“Expression patterns of heat shock protein 27 (Hsp27) in zebrafish (Danio rerio) tissues in response to heat-induced stress”