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About Anton Bilchik

Recognized internationally as a scientist and surgeon, Santa Monica, California, physician Dr. Anton Bilchik has developed groundbreaking techniques for treating colon, liver, and pancreatic cancer over the past two decades. In addition to heading general surgery at Providence he serves as professor of surgery at the John Wayne Cancer Institute.

Among Dr. Bilchik’s areas of extensive research focus are value-based and personalized cancer care, which benefits from profiling at the molecular and immunologic levels. He has an in-depth knowledge of the microbiome and the role it plays in cancer. Another area of funded research has been the physiology of circulating gastrointestinal regulatory peptides and he has undertaken molecular profiling of gastrointestinal malignancies.

Dr. Bilchik earned his doctor of medicine at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, did his PhD thesis at Yale University and then completed surgical research fellowship and residency at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA in 1996). Dr. Anton Bilchik went on to complete a surgical oncology fellowship at the John Wayne Cancer Institute. He also holds an MBA as physician executive from the University of Tennessee.