About Jong Chul Park, MD
Dr. Park is originally from South Korea. He received his M.D, from Seoul National University in South Korea in 1999. After the completion of his internship at Seoul National University Hospital, he served in the military as an army doctor until 2003. He then came to the U.S and joined the Head and Neck Cancer Research Division at Johns Hopkins University as a research fellow. He continued his cancer research at a biotechnology company before he resumed his medical training at East Carolina University in 2008. He continued his training in Hematology and Oncology at Georgetown University (2014) and Johns Hopkins University (2016). He joined the faculty of the Center for Head and Neck Cancers at Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center in 2016.
Dr. Park’s clinical and academic activities are focused on head and neck cancer patient management, as well as early phase clinical and translational research in oncology, with a particular interest in cancer immunotherapy.
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Clinical trials, development of novel drug combinations
- Head and neck cancer
- Phase I Clinical Trials
- Thyroid cancer
Treats:
- Adult
Languages:
- Korean
Locations
Mass General Cancer Center
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-724-4000
Phone: 617-724-2694
Fax: 617-726-0453
Mass General Cancer Center at Newton-Wellesley
2014 Washington St.
Newton, MA 02462
Phone: 617-219-1230
Medical Education
- MD, Seoul National University College of Medicine
- Residency, East Carolina University
- Fellowship, Georgetown University Hospital
- Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University Hospital
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid NY
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
I've been seeing Dr. Park for four years. He's an excellent doctor. His staff is excellent. I have nothing but high praise for all of them. I know I'll be seeing him the next year or two. I think he's a great doctor.
I've been with this doctor since 2020 and he's been keeping me alive for the past four or five years. So he's a god to me. That's the best I can say about my doctor.
Although I'm sure Dr Park is a brilliant man he lacks the ability to connect with patients, make them felt heard and to provide suggestion for different therapies. I am frequently told to live with my symptoms when I truly believe cancer survivorship should be a routine part of care. Dr Park struggles to understand and answer my questions.
They were well informed and very helpful.
Everyone is always courteous and very prompt and very professional.
Knowledgeable and open
Wonderful experience
The interview was thorough. [redacted] The meeting was short and I expected probably a longer meeting to ask further questions but I figured there would be new meetings in the future where I could ask more questions because I didn't prepare any questions for the meeting. I didn't know what to expect. Basically, I was happy with the meeting and ... Read More
Dr Jong is very professional. He treated me with respect.
Dr Park is excellent.