David Tom Cooke was named associate director of the Office of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEAL) at University of California Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Ray Blind, Ingram Assistant Professor of Cancer Research, was named associate director for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
Adebola Adedimeji was named the inaugural associate director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Sarki A. AbdulkadirPatricia RobinsonSarki A. Abdulkadir and Patricia Robinson have been named to senior leadership positions at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, effective Nov. 1.
As Robert A. Winn begins his two-year term as president of the Association of American Cancer Institutes, his presidential initiative of “Inclusive Excellence” aims to increase collaboration among cancer centers, their communities, and other cancer organizations in the United States and abroad.
At a time of intensifying national polarization over critical race theory and affirmative action, leaders of cancer centers are faced with two challenges that appear to be diametrically at odds with each other