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Thomas E. Merchant, DO, PhD, is Chief of Radiation Oncology and a Member of the Department of Radiological Sciences at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital where he has practiced since 1996. Prior to his appointment at St. Jude, he worked as a resident and later was an attending physician in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Dr. Merchant was trained as a nuclear engineer at the University of Michigan. He worked for the French Atomic Energy Commission in Fontenay-aux-Roses prior to attending medical school at the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. He was a Fulbright Scholar to the Netherlands at the University of Utrecht where he received his Ph.D., cum laude, in experimental pathology. The focus of Dr. Merchant’s current research is the application of advanced radiotherapy treatment technology in children with CNS tumors and modeling radiation-related CNS effects. His work in the area of conformal radiation therapy for localized pediatric CNS tumors and medulloblastoma has provided the basis for many of the newer cooperative group brain tumor studies. | 