Dr. Ratain is a graduate of Harvard College (A.B., 1976) and Yale University School of Medicine (M.D., 1980), and completed postgraduate training at Johns Hopkins and the University of Chicago Hospitals. He is currently the Leon O. Jacobson Professor of Medicine, Director of the Center for Personalized Therapeutics Chief Hospital Pharmacologist, and Associate Director for Clinical Sciences in the University’s Comprehensive Cancer. Dr. Ratain is also one of the cofounders of the Optimal Cancer Care Alliance (previously the Value in Cancer Care Consortium, https://optimalcancercare.org/), and currently serves as Director and Treasurer.

Dr. Ratain’s research has included studies of numerous oncology drugs and diagnostics, and has recently created the new discipline of interventional pharmacoeconomics. He is an international leader in clinical trials and pharmacogenomics, with over 500 publications. He is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Research Achievement Award in Clinical Pharmacology and Translational Research from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, the Rawls-Palmer Progress in Medicine Award from the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, the Translational Research Professorship from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, an Honorary Fellowship from the American College of Clinical Pharmacology, and the Award in Clinical Excellence from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association Foundation.