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Jeffrey Dome, MD, PhD is Senior Vice President of the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, Chief of the Division of Oncology at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC.  He is Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine and the Thomas Willson and Lenore Williams McKnew Professor of Pediatric Oncology.

Dr. Dome received his MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and PhD degree in Medicine from Erasmus University in Rotterdam.  He completed a residency in Pediatrics at Yale-New Haven Hospital and a fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Johns Hopkins Hospital.  After fellowship, Dr. Dome was a faculty member at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital before joining Children’s National.

Dr. Dome is an internationally recognized expert on pediatric solid tumors, with an emphasis on kidney tumors and sarcomas. He chaired the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) Renal Tumor Committee for more than a decade.  He is presently on the Executive Committee and Scientific Council of the COG, the editorial board of Pediatric Blood and Cancer, and is immediate past-Chair of the American Board of Pediatrics Subboard of Hematology/Oncology.

In October 2021, Dr. Dome began a 3-year term as North American Continental President of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology (SIOP). He has authored more than 200 articles, books, letters, and chapters on pediatric cancer.

Dr. Dome has lent his extensive expertise to the Pablove Scientific Advisory Committee for many years and was the former Chair.