Francisco Contreras, MD, distinguished oncologist and surgeon, oversees the Oasis of Hope Hospital, a cancer care facility in California. Contreras is also a renowned lecturer and author of The Hope of Living Cancer Free and Health in the 21st Century. After graduating with honors from medical school at the Autonomous University of Mexico in Toluca, Contreras studied alternative therapy at the Oasis of Hope Hospital. He then completed his specialty in surgical oncology at the University of Vienna in Austria, where he also graduated with honors.