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Associate Professor of Medicine
UChicago Faculty Physicians Open for more information
UChicago Faculty Physicians hold faculty positions with the University of Chicago and provide care for patients on the academic health system’s main campus in Hyde Park and in care centers throughout the Chicago region.
CloseDr. O'Donnell is a well-published researcher with advanced training in pharmacology and pharmacogenomics (the study of genetic traits that cause differences between patients in drug responses and side-effects). He has an interest in the study of personalized medicine, which involves considering each patient's genetic profile when determining chemotherapy and other therapeutic decisions. Dr. O'Donnell has several ongoing research projects. Currently, he is investigating how genetic factors affect chemotherapy drug outcomes — specifically for patients receiving treatment for bladder cancer, and for patients receiving the widely used chemotherapy drugs cisplatin and capecitabine.
Additionally, Dr. O'Donnell serves as principal investigator of numerous clinical trials, including the "1200 Patients Project," a clinical study operated through the Center for Personalized Therapeutics at the University of Chicago. In this role, he leads an initiative exploring the benefit of incorporating broad pharmacogenomic testing into routine clinical practice for patients with any type of disease.
Dr. O'Donnell is also a member of the University of Chicago Committee on Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics. This committee aims to expand the educational mission of conducting research and training the next generation of scientists in clinical pharmacology, principles of therapeutics, molecular pharmacology, and pharmacogenomics.
Specialties
Areas of Expertise
- Genitourinary Cancers
- Bladder Cancer
- Prostate Cancer
- Kidney Cancer
- Testicular Cancer
Medical Education
- University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Internship
- University of North Carolina Health Care
Residency
- University of Chicago Medicine
Fellowship
- University of Chicago Medicine
Memberships & Medical Societies
- American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
- American Association for Cancer Research
- American Society of Clinical Oncology
- American Society of Human Genetics
- American Urological Association
- Aetna HMO (specialists only)
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO
- BCBS Blue Precision HMO (specialists only)
- BCBS HMO (HMOI) (specialists only)
- BCBS PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna POS
- Cigna PPO
- CountyCare *see insurance page
- Coventry Health Plan PPO
- Great West PPO
- Aetna Better Health *see insurance page
- Medicare
- Multiplan PPO
- PHCS PPO
- United Choice Plus POS/PPO
- United Options (PPO)
- United Select (HMO & EPO) (specialists only)
- United W500 Emergent Wrap
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