Dr Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo

Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, MD Executive Vice President Director, St. Jude Global Chair, Department of Global Pediatric Medicine Associate Director, Community Outreach and Engagement, St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center Carlos Rodriguez-Galindo, MD, serves as director of St. Jude Global, chair of the Department of Global Pediatric Medicine, and executive vice-president of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He is also the co-director of the St. Jude WHO Collaborating Centre for Childhood Cancer. Rodriguez-Galindo is leading an effort by St. Jude to ensure childhood cancer patients have access to quality care no matter where they live. The St. Jude Global program has established partnerships with more than 200 hospitals in close to 70 countries, which form the St. Jude Global Alliance. In addition to his work in global health, Dr. Rodriguez-Galindo’s areas of clinical research and expertise include retinoblastoma, sarcomas, rare cancers, and histiocytic disorders. He has been the chair of the Rare Tumor’s committee of the Children’s Oncology Group and the President of the Histiocyte Society, and has been the principal investigator of several institutional, national, and international trials.