Sacramento, CA—Prominently featured in The Inner Circle,
Colin Paul Spears is acknowledged as a Most Trusted Healthcare Provider for his
contributions to the Medical Field.
Dr Spears earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honors in
Chemistry-Biology at Queens College City University of New York. He received a
medical degree from the State University of New York Health Science Center at
Brooklyn and performed his internship with the U.S. Public Health Service
Hospital in San Francisco from 1970 through 1971. He then served as a NASA
research associate in cardiology with the USPHS in physiology studies of
prolonged bedrest as an analog of weightlessness in space from 1971 until 1973.
Dr. Spears completed a residency in internal medicine at LAC-USC Medical Center
in 1974. Dr. Spears completed NIH NCI Training Fellowships ending in 1976 at
the USC Comprehensive Cancer Center and another fellowship in medical
oncology-hematology from 1976-1978 at the LAC-USC/MC. He later completed a
fellowship in hematology at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan in Los Angeles
in 1984. During the same time, he was a Research Scholar at the USC-CCC with
Prof. Charles Heidelberger from 1978-1983, winning NIH NCI RO1 cancer research
awards.
Dr. Spears is the CEO & Founder of Fibonacci Phyllotaxis
Inc. dba Fibons in Sacramento California. He served as Chairman of the Cancer Committee
at Mercy General Hospital – Cancer Center from 2004-2016 and joined Sierra
Hematology & Oncology in 2001. Dr. Spears lead the MGH Cancer Committee
through three Joint Commission AJCC/ACOS approvals and retired in 2017.
The doctor was Professor of Medical Oncology at California
Northstate University College of Medicine emeritus after 2017. He joined the
USC-CCC faculty for the next 25 years, which included oncology-hematology
practice at the Norris Cancer Hospital in Los Angeles and the Huntington Hospital
Cancer Center in Pasadena. Dr. Spears’ areas of research include breast and
colon cancer; biopsy; and pharmacodynamics, which he pioneered in 1980
resulting in advanced trials of CoFactor to enhance fluorouracil therapy.
According to the doctor, his work in discrete mathematics is cited in
Mathematica.com (Wolfram MathWorld) for the Generalized Fibonacci Numbers. This
led to the invention of sequential slide video microscopy of a Cotula species
in study of asymmetric binary division growth models. He invented and now has
made available interconvertible volume and area doubling rulers for measuring
tumor growth and response to treatment.
Dr. Spears has also contributed to the field of alkylating
agent kinetic classification of nucleophilic selectivity’s ranging from
low-mutagenic to high-therapeutic. Further details of his work and publications
are given at www.cpspears.com.
Dr. Spears was the Senior Research Physician at Eli Lilly in Indianapolis in 2000, accelerating FDA approval of pemetrexed (Alimta) in lung cancer by addition of folate/B-vitamins. Dr. Spears is board-certified in medical oncology and internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). According to the doctor, the ABIM is a physician-led, non-profit independent evaluation organization driven by doctors who want to achieve higher standards for better care in a rapidly changing world. He notes that hematology is the branch of medicine concerned with the study of the cause prognosis treatment and prevention of diseases related to blood. Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. A hematologist-oncologist is a physician who specializes in the diagnosis treatment or prevention of cancer malignant blood diseases.
Dr. Spears was awarded the Patients’ Choice Award
(2008-2012) and Patients’ Choice 5th Anniversary Award (2012). He was chosen as
Consultant of the Year by the Dignity Health Family Practice Residency program
in 2003, 2008, and 2009. He is associated with the American Society of Clinical
Oncology; American Association of Cancer Research; and American Society of
Hematology.
Dr. Spears is active with his local parochial school
athletic leagues. He would like to dedicate this honor to his mentors, Charles
Heidelberger, Ph.D.; Lenore Meadows, MD; and Ken Hyatt, MD.
For more information about Dr. Spears’ work, please visit
the website www.cpspears.com.
