Jill S. Barnholtz-Sloan

Jill Suzanne Barnholtz-Sloan is an American biostatistician and data scientist specialized in cancer epidemiology and etiologic investigations of brain tumors. She is a senior investigator and associate director for informatics and data science at the National Cancer Institute.

Life Barnholtz was born to Barbara Barnholtz, a Jewish Community Center assistant developmental director and Martin Barnholtz, a Creve Coeur city councilor. She completed an M.S. in statistics from the University of Texas at Austin. Barnholtz earned a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the UTHealth School of Public Health. In June 2000, she married physician-scientist and neurosurgeon Andrew E. Sloan at the Missouri Botanical Garden. In 2007, she joined the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. She worked in multiple roles in the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine (CWRU) and the University Hospitals Health System (UHHS), which all focused on optimizing the use of data and analytics to advance health care. She has experience with multi-site, brain tumor, patient recruitment, and biological specimen collection, storage, and clinical annotation. Her research portfolio includes descriptive epidemiology studies and etiologic investigations of brain tumors.