Dr. Alexander Pearson is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the section of Hematology and Oncology at the University of Chicago. Dr. Pearson serves as Director of the University of Chicago Center for Computational Medicine and Clinical Artificial Intelligence as well the Director of the Head/Neck Cancer Program in Medical Oncology. He is a Chan-Zuckerberg Chicago Biohub Investigator and has a Joint Appointment at Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Pearson trained as a PhD statistician and physician at the University of Rochester and completed both subspecialty training in Hematology/Oncology and postdoctoral research in mathematical systems biology and head/neck cancer at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Pearson currently practices medical oncology at the University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center where he is an active clinical investigator and clinical trialist. Dr. Pearson is a nationally recognized researcher for applications of quantitative methods to cancer research, and his research lab studies clinical applications for machine learning, mathematical modeling, AI, quantum computing, and systems biology. Dr. Pearson has authored more than 100 research manuscripts in clinical and computational oncology. His research is funded by the NIH, DOD, EU Horizon 2020 Initiative, Wellcome Trust, and multiple industry partners. He has served on AI-in-medicine advisory groups to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), American Dental Association (ADA), and American Medical Association (AMA). Dr Pearson is an active educator and mentor, and lecturer, and has developed grant-funded pre- and post-doctoral educational programs in the US and Africa.