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Gary M. Dosik, M.D.
Gary M. Dosik, M.D. received his B.S. degree with honors in the Chemistry
Curriculum from the University of Illinois, and his M.D. degree from the
University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. He trained
as an Intern and Resident in Internal Medicine at Rush-Presbyterian-St.
Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, where he was given the Will F. Lyons International
Harvester Award for Outstanding Intern and was elected outstanding Medical
Resident for two sequential years.
Following his Internal Medicine training, Dr. Dosik spent two years
in the United States Air Force, stationed in Tucson Arizona. There, he achieved
the rank of Major and received the Air Force Commendation Medal for his
work as Director of the Physician's Assistant Training Program and for creating
a cancer clinic. While in the military he held a faculty position at the
University of Nebraska.
Upon discharge from the military he pursued formal training in Medical
Oncology and Hematology as a Fellow at the M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor
Institute in Houston Texas. He continued there on the full-time faculty
as Assistant Professor of Medicine, where he pursued his research interests
in Cell Kinetics and the treatment of Acute Leukemia in adults.
Dr. Dosik has been in private practice limited to Medical Oncology and
Hematology in Encino, California since 1979, where he has been Chief of
Staff of Encino Hospital and, more recently, Chief of Staff of Encino-Tarzana
Regional Medical Center, from 1996-2000. In addition to serving as Director
of Medical Oncology in past years, he has also been on the board of Governors
of Encino-Tarzana Medical Center, and continues to be on the Medical Executive
Committee of that institution as Immediate Past Chief of Staff.
Dr. Dosik is Certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in
the specialties of Internal Medicine, Medical Oncology, and Hematology,
and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He has held a faculty
position at UCLA and is currently Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
at the University of Southern California. He has authored and coauthored
over thirty publications in the medical literature on the topics of cancer
treatment and cell kinetics and has lectured at national and local meetings
on the subject of new cancer drugs, their effects on cell growth, cancer
treatment, and other cancer related topics.
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