Vikas Ghai, MD

Vikas Ghai, MD, FACP, is part of the medical staff at the Adventist Health AIS Cancer Center, a member of the UC Davis Cancer Care Network. 

Dr. Ghai cares for cancer patients with benign and malignant hematological disorders and all solid tumors. His main areas of focus are lung cancer, breast cancer, GU, GI, leukemia and lymphomas. 

Dr. Ghai comes to Bakersfield most recently from Penn State's Hershey Medical Center, where he was an assistant professor. Dr. Ghai studied internal medicine and earned a master's of science and biomedical sciences degree from the University of Toledo, Ohio. He received a hematology/oncology fellowship from the Hershey Medical Center. 

An article on his work with special therapies for the treatment of a highly aggressive type of lymphoma was published in the January 2013 issue of Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 

Dr. Ghai's inspiration to enter the medical field comes from losing his grandmother to breast cancer. He and his wife—Dr. Sonia Ghai, an OB-GYN—are the parents of 2 children, Ishaan (son) and Manya (daughter).