James Bicher, M.D.

James Bicher, M.D. was born in San Cristobal, Santa Fe in Argentina on May 12, 1937. At the age of 16, James Bicher, M.D. entered the University of Buenos Aires Medical School and completed his studies in 1962 at the Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem, Israel, where he and his parents had immigrated.

From 1962 to 1968, after completing his internship at the Beilinson Hospital in Petah-Tiqya, Israel, James Bicher, MD was a lecturer in Physiology and Pharmacology for Tel Aviv University; a research supervisor for Pharmacological Screening Program, and the senior scientist for the Rogoff Medical Research Institute at Beilinson Hospital in Israel.

From 1973 to 1976, James Bicher, MD was the Associate Professor in Pharmacology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he started researching on Hyperthermia applied to cancer treatment.

While there, Dr. Bicher completed his residency in Radiation Therapy in 1974. In 1976, Dr. Bicher completed his second residency in Radiation Therapy and was the Associate Chief of the Department of Radiation Medicine at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, New York until 1978.

In 1983 James Bicher, MD founded Valley Cancer Institute and has been its director since then.

Dr. Bicher's academic appointments include: clinical Associate Professor in Radiology at the State University of New York (SUNY) in 1977 and 1978; Associate Professor of the Department of Biology at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan from 1978 to 1982. Dr. Bicher's specialization trip included 6 months at the Institute of Pharmacology in Bonn University (Prof. R. Domenjoz) between 1964 and 1965.

James Bicher, MD was the Reviewer for the following publications: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION in 1976; Editorial Board of MICROVASCULAR RESEARCH in 1976; Editorial Board of NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES in 1977; RADIOLOGY and MICROVASCULAR RESEARCH in1978, 1979, 1980; and the Associate Editor of ENDOCURIETHERAPIE/ HYPERTHERMIC ONCOLOGY- an International Journal in 1985.

Currently Dr. James Bicher supervises the operation of his 50 patients a day oncology practice in Los Angeles, California, providing Hyperthermia combined with low-dose focused radiation, in the form of IMRT (intensity modulated Radiation Therapy).