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Dr Howard McLeod is an internationally recognized expert in precision medicine, having made novel contributions at the discovery, translation, implementation, and policy levels. He is the Medical Director for Precision Medicine at the Geriatric Oncology Consortium and a Professor at the University of South Florida Taneja College of Pharmacy. Dr McLeod chaired the NHGRI eMERGE network external scientific panel for the past decade and was a recent member of both the FDA committee on Clinical Pharmacology and the NIH Human Genome Advisory Council. Dr McLeod has been recognized as a Fellow of both the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy and was recently ranked #1 USA/#2 World for Pharmacogenomics. He has also been an active Board Member and/or Founder for over a dozen privately held and publicly traded companies. Howard has published over 575 peer reviewed papers on pharmacogenomics, applied therapeutics, or clinical pharmacology and continues to work to advance innovative healthcare. Dr McLeod obtained his bachelors at the University of Washington School of Pharmacy. He then received his Pharm.D. from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science. His nPost-Doctoral Training was as a Clinical Research Fellow (Mentor: Prof William E Evans), St Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA. He then did a research Fellowship (Mentor: Prof Paul Workman) at the CRC Dept. of Medical Oncology, Cancer Research Campaign Beatson Laboratories, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
