Bio
Dr. Sylvia K. Plevritis is the William M. Hume Professor in the School of Medicine, Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Radiology and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University. She leads a systems biology cancer research program that bridges multiomic, imaging, clinical and population data to decipher properties of cancer progression and drug response. Dr. Plevritis received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and M.S. in Health Services Research, both from Stanford University, with a focus on cancer imaging physics and modeling cancer outcomes, respectively. She is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and Distinguished Investigator in the Academy of Radiology Research. Dr. Plevritis has served on numerous NIH study sections, chaired scientific programs for the several professional societies including the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and presented keynote lectures across multiple scales of computational cancer biology. She served on NCI Board of Scientific Advisors from 2016-2024. She is actively serving as Associate Director for Cancer AI in the Stanford Cancer Institute.Sylvia Plevritis is the Program Director of the Stanford Center in Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB), and is a Principal Investigator with the NCI Cancer Intervention Surveillance Network (CISNET).
