Toufic Kachaamy, M.D., joined City of Hope in 2013. He currently serves as the chief of medicine for City of Hope Cancer Center Phoenix and has clinical leadership responsibilities for several medical departments and supportive care services. As a gastroenterologist trained in advanced endoscopy, Dr. Kachaamy focuses his practice on identifying, diagnosing and staging gastrointestinal malignancies, as well as providing interventional procedures for treatment and palliation. Dr. Kachaamy is a clinical researcher in the fields of cancer quality-of-life outcomes and cancer ablation, including cryotherapy. He works with a multidisciplinary team of oncology experts, with a special focus on pancreatic, stomach, esophageal, colon, liver and bile ducts malignancies.
Dr. Kachaamy earned a medical degree with distinction from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, followed by an internship in internal medicine at Duke University School of Medicine. He then completed two fellowships, first in gastroenterology at Virginia Commonwealth University, then a second in advanced endoscopy at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine & Science.
Dr. Kachaamy holds positions on a number of medical society boards, including as an Innovation Committee member with the American College of Gastroenterology, as well as the chair of the Endoscopic Oncology Committee for the Foundation for Interventional & Therapeutic Endoscopy. He chairs a national conference focused on innovation and endoscopic oncology and is a member of the Medical Advisory Board for the Colon Cancer Coalition. He is known as a leader, not only throughout the Phoenix endoscopy community, but also nationally through his work as chair of the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy’s Special Interest Group in Endoscopic Oncology.