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Gary Bucher, MD, Family Medicine, Chicago, IL

GaryGerardBucherMD

Family Medicine Chicago, IL

HIV/AIDS Medicine

Medical Director, Anal Dysplasia Clinic MidWest

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  • Office

    2551 N Clark Street
    Suite 203
    Chicago, IL 60614
    Phone+1 312-623-2625
    Fax+1 773-289-0685

Summary

  • For over 35 years, Dr. Bucher has been a leader in clinical care and research with HIV/ AIDS patients. He has felt the need to be on the forefront of advances and care for PLWH. Dr. Bucher saw the rates of anal cancer increasing in PLWH, MSM and other high-risk groups.

    Dr. Bucher started referring patients for work up for abnormal anal pap smears (anal cytology) to colorectal surgeons. He soon found out that his patients were not getting the appropriate evaluation with high resolution anoscopy (HRA). His patients were examined with a rectal exam and a standard plain anoscopy. Subsequently, they were told that everything was normal when they could have had anal precancer that was not seen because an HRA was not performed. His patients felt a false sense of security that they were being evaluated properly and that all was normal.

    Dr. Bucher quickly found that evaluation and treatment of anal and perianal precancer were nonexistent in Chicago and decided he needed to learn how to perform HRA’s and treat anal precancer. In 2008, Dr. Bucher was so concerned about the trajectory of anal disease in his community, that he started focusing exclusively on providing HRA and HPV related anal disease treatments and opened his Anal Dysplaisa Clinic MidWest (ADC MidWest) in Chicago.

    Dr. Bucher’s experience continued to evolve with his clinical practice and research to the point where he was able to participate as the principal investigator in the largest anal cancer prevention study (ANCHOR Study) ever conducted in the USA. Dr. Bucher’s private clinical practice enrolled 580 participants from the Chicagoland region out of the 4,446 total U.S. participants. The ANCHOR Study is an anal cancer prevention clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and it’s Office of HIV and AIDS Malignancy (OHAM) and AIDS Malignancy Consortium (AMC).

Education & Training

  • CarePoint Health/New York Medical College (Hoboken)
    CarePoint Health/New York Medical College (Hoboken)Residency, Family Medicine, 1990 - 1992
  • Ascension Illinois/Saint Joseph (Chicago)
    Ascension Illinois/Saint Joseph (Chicago)Internship, Transitional Year, 1989 - 1990
  • University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine
    University of Missouri Kansas City School of MedicineClass of 1989

Certifications & Licensure

  • IL State Medical License
    IL State Medical License 1993 - 2026
  • National Board of Physicians and Surgeons Family Medicine

Clinical Trials

Publications & Presentations

PubMed