
Howard McLeod, PharmD
Medical Director, Precision Medicine
Geriatric Oncology Consortium
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Dr. Howard McLeod is the Medical Director for Precision Medicine at the Geriatric Oncology Consortium. He is an internationally recognized expert in pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine, having made contributions at the discovery, translation, implementation, and policy levels. He is a Professor at the University of South Florida Taneja College of Pharmacy. He was previously the Medical Director of the DeBartolo Family Personalized Medicine Institute at the Moffitt Cancer Center. He also chaired the Department of Individualized Cancer Management, was a Senior Member in the Department of Cancer Epidemiology, and a State of Florida Endowed Chair in Cancer Research. 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.
Since 2002, Dr. McLeod has been vice chair for Pharmacogenomics for the major NCI clinical trials group, overseeing the largest oncology pharmacogenomics portfolio in the world. Dr. McLeod is a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy. Howard has published over 560 peer reviewed papers on pharmacogenomics, applied therapeutics, or clinical pharmacology and continues to work to advance individualized medicine.