Dr. Cary A Presant, M.D., F.A.C.P. a hematologist and medical oncologist, is the President of the California Cancer Medical Center.

Born in Buffalo, New York, he recieved his medical degree in 1966 from the State university of New York at Buffalo, and completed postdoctoral training at Columbia University in New York City, the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri.

He has been involved in laboratory and clinical investigations, and has been director of cencer programs at Washington University School of Medicine, the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis and the City of Hope National Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. He is currently Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, and is the Chairman of the Los Angeles Oncologic Institute, the Cancer Center at St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is the principal investigator of the Central Los Angeles Community Clinical Oncology Program, supported by the National Cancer Institute.

Dr. Presant is the author of over 300 scientific articles, books chapters, and communications and is a recognized expert in cancer treatments, cancer detection, chemothereapy, experimental tumor biology and pharmacology, liposomes for cancer diagnosis and therapy, magnetic resonance spectoscopy, and measurement of quality of life in cancer patients.

Dr. Presant is currently the President of the California Division of the American Cancer Society. He is also the Chair of the Board of the Medical Oncology Association of Southern California. Nationally, Dr. Presant is a past Director of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the world's largest association of cancer physicians. He is now serving as President of the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC). He was honored as one of the "best doctors in America" in a national publication.

Dr. Presant's current research in West Covina, California, and at the Los Angeles Oncologic Institute in Los Angeles, is focused on liposomal chemotherapy, improvment of chemotherapy effectiveness by magnetic resonance spectoscopy, and the development of new therapeutic programs for cancer. Dr. Presant lives with his wife, Sheila, and their four children in San Marino.