Ravi Patel, MD, is a board-certified medical oncologist. He has done his MBBS from Government Medical College, India, and residency in internal medicine from the University of Illinois (affiliated to Ravenswood hospital). He completed his fellowship in Hematology/Oncology from Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University alongside a combined affiliated program from the Foster G. McGaw hospital. The fellowship program included bone marrow transplantation training and a combined Hematology/Oncology program.
Dr. Patel founded Comprehensive Blood and Cancer Center (CBCC) that grew from a 1200 square feet office to a comprehensive, community-focused diagnostic, educational, and research-based cancer center. Dr. Patel planned to affiliate CBCC with the UCLA School of Medicine. Working with the UCLA research consortium, UCLA employees managed clinical trials alongside the center’s research staff. Several treatments that were tested at CBCC were profoundly successful and have been submitted to the Federal Government’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for approval. These breakthrough treatments have made it possible to manage and cure many forms of cancer globally.
For the last 30 years, Dr. Patel has been actively caring for his patients and has been serving as principal investigator in many clinical research trials at CBCC. He is globally involved with the leading pharmaceutical manufacturers and academic research programs to ensure that cancer patients in Kern County have access to the most cutting-edge medicines and treatments available across the world.