Dr. Bruce Bloom, President and Chief Science Officer

In February 2002, Dr. Bruce Bloom became the Executive Director of Goldman Philanthropic Partnerships, a 501(c)(3) private operating foundation. In 2005, when Goldman Partnerships created the public charity Partnership for Cures to carry on the Goldman mission, Dr. Bloom became President and Chief Science Officer. Dr. Bloom directs the operation of this public charity dedicated to making a lasting impact on disease by pushing the boundaries of scientific research and creating new methods to fund it.

Dr. Bloom was profiled in the Chicago Sun Times by financial columnist Theo Pincus. Click here to read the profile. He was also quoted several times in Newsweek in June 2009 and in May 2010.

Dr. Bloom was elected an International Ashoka Fellow in 2009. Ashoka: Innovators for the Public recognizes social entrepreneurs for their system-changing solutions to the world's most urgent social problems. Dr. Bloom and the other new Fellows were inducted, along with newly-elected Fellows from Mexico and Central America, at a ceremony in Washington DC in March 2010. They join the ranks of some 2,800 Fellows in over 60 countries around the world who are working for social change to improve society.

Dr. Bloom holds a Juris Doctor degree from Chicago Kent College of Law, a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from University of Illinois Medical Center, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from University of Illinois. He is a faculty member at Kendall College, has been a lecturer at the University of Illinois Chicago for 15 years, and was a senior lecturer at Northwestern University for 6 years. Dr. Bloom has taught Business Law and Risk Management to thousands of healthcare and other professionals since 1985.

Dr. Bloom currently serves as a the President of the Charles E. Culpeper Science Advisory Boards, a Medical Research Advisor to the LUNGevity Foundation, a Policy Advisor to Accelerate Progress, a Board member of the Judy Hirsch Foundation, a Science Reviewer for the ACS Lung Cancer Grant Program, a Science Reviewer for the CHEST Foundation Grant Program, a Client Advisor to Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, and Vice-Chair of the Kendall College School of Business Advisory Board. Dr. Bloom is a host of the Clinician's Roundtable heard on ReachMD.com and on XM 160.

He lives in Deerfield, IL with his wife Stacy and they are watching their two grown children successfully navigate the world.

To contact Dr. Bloom at Partnership for Cures
70 West Madison Street, Suite 1500
Chicago, IL 60602
585-542-8737 (Direct)
312-696-1366 (O)
312-263-0939 (F)
847-529-6888 (M)
Bruce@4cures.org
www.4cures.org