Dr. John Lucas is currently an associate faculty member at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He completed his radiation oncology residency at Wake Forest University in 2015 after a preliminary medicine year at UNC Chapel Hill. He completed his Medical Doctorate at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC where he also obtained a masters in Clinical and Translational Research. His current research interests are novel clinical trial designs and patient risk stratification methods. The application of these methods has yielded several web-based prediction tools which can be applied to clinical decision making. Dr. Lucas is the pediatric malignancy Associate Editor for radiation oncology.