Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan, PhD

As the Associate Director for Informatics and Data Science (IDS) Program in the NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT), Dr. Barnholtz-Sloan leads efforts at CBIIT to shape data science strategies and to foster collaboration within NCI and across NIH and the cancer research community.  She also has robust research agenda in descriptive epidemiology and etiology of brain tumors as an intramural NCI researcher in NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), Trans-Divisional Research Program.

Blending these two unique perspectives—as an active researcher and as an administrator—gives her unique insight into how data can be translated into real-world solutions to help diagnose, prevent, and treat cancer. Dr. Barnholtz-Sloan is a nationally and internationally recognized leader in the fields of cancer informatics and data science and is multi-disciplinary trained in biostatistics, epidemiology, and human genetics.