Eric Bernicker, MD, graduated from St. John’s High School in 1982 and then got his undergraduate degree from Yale University, where he majored in History. He returned to Texas for medical school at Baylor College of Medicine, did his internship in Dallas at Southwestern, and returned to Baylor to complete his internal medicine residency. After serving as chief resident for a year at Ben Taub General Hospital, he did his medical oncology fellowship at MD Anderson cancer center and then joined Medical Clinic of Houston in 1996. He had a broad clinical practice of oncology and hematology and was on staff at both St. Luke’s Hospital and Methodist hospital, serving as section chief of medical oncology at St. Luke’s before joining the physicians’ organization of Houston Methodist in 2013. Since joining HMH, he started the thoracic medical oncology service and opened multiple trials for patients dealing with advanced lung cancer or ocular melanoma. He is also the chairman of the Cancer Committee at HMH, which deals with quality initiatives for the oncology service line, as well the head of the Protocol Review and Monitoring Committee of the cancer center. He has a strong interest in the intersection of oncology and public health, editing the textbook “Cancer and Society” and the forthcoming ‘Environmental Oncology.
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