Jethro L. Hu, M.D., came to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 2009 after completing a neuro-oncology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

He served as chief resident during his final year of residency in neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and received several awards and scholarships for academic achievement during his years in college and medical training.

Dr. Hu earned two bachelor’s degrees – one in molecular and cell biology, the other in political science – and was the founder and first president of the University of California, Berkeley Premedical Chapter of the American Medical Student Association from 1998 to 1999. He also served as president of the AMSA chapter at the University of California, San Francisco from 2001 to 2002. As part of the AMSA’s Washington Health Policy Fellowship Program, he was a health policy fellow in the office of Congressman Danny K. Davis in the summer of 2001.

• American Society of Clinical Oncology

 • American Academy of Neurology 

American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology

Recipient of numerous awards for scholastic achievement

• Bachelor’s Degrees: University of California, Berkeley, 1999

 • Medical Degree: University of California, San Francisco, 2004

 • Internship: Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, 2004-2005

 • Residency: Neurology (Chief Resident in final year), University of California, Los Angeles, 2005-2008

 • Fellowship: Neuro-oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, 2008-2009