Tara O. Henderson, MD, MPH
Chair of Pediatrics, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; Attending Physician, Hematology, Oncology, Neuro-Oncology & Stem Cell Transplantation; Founders' Board Centennial Professorship in Pediatrics
Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology, Oncology, and Stem Cell Transplantation), Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
- Language:
- English
- Pronouns:
- She
- Her
Location
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
225 E. Chicago Ave.Chicago, Illinois 60611
About
An expert in pediatric cancer survivorship, Dr. Henderson's research focuses on understanding childhood, adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer outcomes, including characterizing the development of and screening for subsequent cancers in survivors. Her National Institutes of Health-funded research has impacted policy and practice to integrate cancer care with primary and sub-specialty care from diagnosis to long-term survivorship.
Dr. Henderson completed her medical degree at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago and her Master of Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She completed her hematology-oncology fellowship at the Boston Children's Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Combined Program, her health services research fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital and her pediatrics residency at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
After finishing her master's degree at Harvard, Dr. Henderson received the 2005 Conquer Cancer Foundation Merit Award for her research on sarcomas as a subsequent malignancy in survivors of pediatric cancer, conducted as part of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.
Dr. Henderson was selected for the 2018 class of Presidential Leadership Scholars, a highly competitive and prestigious national program organized by the presidential center of George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, and Lyndon Johnson, designed to learn lessons from the four presidencies and develop a personal leadership project intended to increase the social good.
She also served on the American Society of Clinical Oncology Board of Directors from 2020 to 2024, has been named an American Society of Clinical Oncology Advocacy Champion, and was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation, a medical honor society of physician scientists in 2021.
Specialty
Education & Training
Education: Harvard University School of Public Health, Clinical Effectiveness Program, Boston, MA, 2005; University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, 1999; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1995
Postgraduate Training: Research fellowship, Harvard Pediatric Health Services Research, Boston, MA, 2004-2005; David B. Perini Quality of Life Clinic for Cancer Survivorship Fellowship, Boston, MA, 2003-2005; Fellowship in pediatric hematology oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, 2002-2005; Residency in pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, 1999-2002
Board Certifications: Pediatrics; Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Professional Organizations: American Society of Clinical Investigation
