Peter White, PhD, is a genomics scientist and innovator, driven to create a future where no child with genetic disease goes undiagnosed and every child with cancer receives optimal treatment based upon their personal genome sequence. He currently has the position of Senior Director in The Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, one of America’s largest not-for-profit freestanding pediatric health care systems. He also has the appointment of tenured Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine at The Ohio State University.

He directs the Computational Genomics Group, leading a team of 30 high performing bioinformatics scientists, data scientists, software engineers and developers. He has substantial expertise in cloud computing and its applications in a combined healthcare and research setting. Leveraging the flexibility of the cloud, his group develops highly optimized solutions to address the substantial processing, networking and big data challenges arising from genomic science.