Dr. Chandler Villaverde is an Internal Medicine and Pediatrics trained physician with an interest in subspecialty care delivery in low resource settings. He is currently working with Partners In Health / Inshuti Mu Buzima as an Oncology Program Internist, splitting time between direct clinical care, research projects, and teaching. He also works as a hospitalist at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska. His current research interests include understanding and improving outcomes for cancer patients from low- and middle-income countries. He also enjoys teaching medical students, from the classroom to the bedside.

Chandler earned his MD from Brown University and completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. During medical school, he completed a one-year Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellowship in Kampala, Uganda, helping to study the neurodevelopmental outcomes of children with severe malaria. After residency, he completed a Global and Rural Health Fellowship at the University of Washington, splitting time between the tribal health system in Alaska and working with Partners In Health / Inshuti Mu Buzima in Rwanda.