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Avrum Z. Bluming, M.D.
Avrum Bluming received his B.A. degree from Columbia College where he
majored in music, and his M.D. degree from the Columbia College of Physicians
and Surgeons where he was elected to AOA. He spent 4 years as a Senior Investigator
for the National Cancer Institute and, for two of those years, was Director
of the Lymphoma Treatment Center in Kampala, Uganda.
He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at USC and a Senior Attending
Physician at the LA County USC Medical Center. He is Board Certified in
Internal Medicine, Hematology, and Medical Oncology.
From 1981 through 1987, he was a member of the Ethical Practice Committee
of the Los Angeles County Medical Association.
He has served as Director of Oncology, Chief of Medicine and Chief of
Staff at both Encino Hospital and at the Tarzana Regional Medical Center.
In 1994, he was elected to Mastership in the American College of Physicians,
an honor accorded to only 342 of the 100,000 members of that organization.
That same year, he was also listed in the Woodward White book, The Best
Doctors in America.
In May of 1997, he was invited to the national meeting of the American
Society of Clinical Oncology to present a paper on the administration of
Hormone Replacement Therapy to women with a history of previously treated
primary breast cancer. The study of this question, done in cooperation with
oncologists around the greater Los Angeles area, is currently the largest
study of this issue in the country.
He is a founder and current President of the Los Angeles Free-Net, a
non-profit organization, inaugurated in 1994, providing extensive medical
and other information resources to the Los Angeles Community.
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