<p>Donald Abrams, MD is the past chief of the Hematology-Oncology Division at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, an integrative oncologist at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health and Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. A Brown University undergraduate, he attended the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Abrams did his Internal Medicine residency at the Kaiser Foundation Hospital in San Francisco before becoming an Oncology Fellow at the University of California San Francisco as the AIDS epidemic erupted. He was a pioneer AIDS Oncologist and investigator for 25 years. After completing his integrative medicine fellowship at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, Dr. Abrams has been providing integrative oncology consultations to people living with and beyond cancer since 2005. His integrative oncology interests are in nutrition and cancer, medicinal mushrooms, Traditional Chinese Medicine interventions and cannabis in cancer care. He received funding from the NIH and the University of California Center for Cannabis Research to conduct cannabis clinical trials for 20 years beginning in 1997. He co-authored the chapter on “Cannabinoids and Cancer” in the Oxford University Press Integrative Oncology text that he co-edited with Andrew Weil. He served for 13 years on the NCI PDQ CAM Editorial Board where he helped edit the Cannabinoids and Cancer website. He was a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s committee that published The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids: Current State of Evidence and Recommendations for Research in January 2017.</p>
