Dr. Samuel Volchenboum

Biography

Samuel Volchenboum is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Chicago and serves as the Associate Chief Research Informatics Officer for the Biological Sciences Division. He is also the Associate Dean for Master’s Education and the Informatics Lead at the Institute for Translational Medicine. Volchenboum’s clinical specialty lies in pediatric hematology and oncology, focusing on caring for children with cancer and blood diseases. He leads the Data Common Good research group, which is dedicated to liberating and democratizing data. His most significant project is the Pediatric Cancer Data Commons, the largest publicly available repository of data for childhood cancer in the world. Since 2007, he has been a faculty member at the University of Chicago, and in 2009, he was named a St. Baldrick's Foundation Scholar. Volchenboum holds an MD and a PhD in molecular biology from the Mayo Medical School, completed his residency at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and undertook a fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital. He later completed a fellowship in informatics and received a Master’s in biomedical informatics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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