Alexander C Black MD

Hematologic Oncology

Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCLA

27235 Tourney Rd, suite 2400Valencia, CA 91355
Phone+1 661-255-5350
Fax+1 661-255-9907

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Education & Training

UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical CenterFellowship, Hematology and Medical Oncology, 1987 - 1989
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Columbia University1983 - 1987
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Columbia University1983 - 1987
New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus)Residency, Internal Medicine, 1984 - 1986
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and SurgeonsClass of 1983

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Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 1986 - 2028
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Hematology
American Board of Internal Medicine Medical Oncology

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory 2014 Certified EHR Suite, Epic Systems Corporation, 2014, 2016
Top Doctors:LA Area Castle Connolly, 2013
Valencia site principal investigator (PI) for the Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) UCLA School of Medicine, 2012

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

3 citations
Intra-articular metastatic pancreatic carcinoma of the right knee mimicking septic arthritis.
Alexander C. Black, Rashida Soni
Clinical Colorectal Cancer. 2014-06-01
1 citations
Metastatic breast cancer masquerading as primary gastric cancer: case report and review of the literature.
Alexander C. Black, Danielle Lu, Susan Murakami
Gastrointestinal Cancer Research. 2014-05-01
96 citations
Dichloroacetate should be considered with platinum-based chemotherapy in hypoxic tumors rather than as a single agent in advanced non-small cell lung cancer.
Edward B. Garon, Heather R. Christofk, Wylie Hosmer, Carolyn D. Britten, Agnes Bahng
Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology. 2014-01-18

Journal Articles

HTLV II Rex inhibits pre-mRNA splicing at an early stage of spliceosome formation.
Bakker A, Li X, Ruland CT, Stephens DW, Black AC, Rosenblatt JD, J Virol 70: 5511-5518
Disseminated polyomavirus infection in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) following salvage chemo-immunotherapy: a case report and review of the literature.
Black AC, Khanna C, Assomull VM, Gadowski DR, Barstis JL, Clough WG, Lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Libertas Academia
Breast conservation treatment outcomes: a community hospital experience.
Florentine BD, Kaushal NK, Puig MR, Sarda N, Senofsky G, Cooper BT, Black A, Zimmerman R, Barstis J, Breast J. 15(1): 76-84

Books/Book Chapters

Human Retroviruses.
Chapter: The effects of tax and rex proteins of HTLV I/II on viral and cellular gene regulation
Page 33 - 47Black AC, Nimer SD, Chen ISY, Rosenblatt JDEditors: Groopman J, Chen ISY, Essex M, Weiss R.Alan R. Liss, New York
Genes and Cancer.
Chapter: Viral trans-activating genes
Black AC, Rosenblatt JD, Chen ISYEditors: Sikora K, Carney D.John Wiley & Sons, West Sussex England
Advances In Biology and Therapy.
Chapter: essons in viral leukemo- genesis
Rosenblatt JD, Danon Y, Black AC: A decade with HTLV I/HTLV IIEditors: Gale RP, Baltimore D.Leukemia

Abstracts/Posters

Constitutive expression of HTLV I Tax in Jurkat T cells induces overlapping but distinct changes in cellular gene expression as compared with HTLV I transformed cells.
Black AC, Chun S, Luo J, Emmanouilides C, ASH annual meeting
HTLV I transformed cells are resistant to Gamma-radiation induced apoptosis despite high levels of Wild type p53.
Black AC, Luo J, Tabibzadeh S, Emmanouilides C, ASH annual meeting
Prevention of experimental acute GVHD with galectin-1 and effects on immunologic reconstitution.
Emmanouilides C, Hoffman D, Baum LG, Dao P, Sphaner A, Firouzalteh P, Luo J, Territo M, Baldwin G, Black AC, ASH annual meeting