Crystal Rodriguez-Dabney was named chief diversity officer and senior vice president, a senior leadership position with direct influence on initiatives across the organization, at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center.
No Hispanic woman has ever served as director of an NCI-designated cancer center. This changed a month ago, on Feb. 6, when Yolanda Sanchez became director and CEO of The University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Selwyn M. Vickers wants Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to become better known in Harlem, Coney Island, and other parts of New York City where the elite institution he now leads is not a go-to place.
On May 25, 2020, George Floyd said “I can’t breathe” more than 20 times before he suffocated on a street in Minneapolis. On Jan. 7, 2023, Tyre Nichols repeatedly screamed, “Mom, mom, mom” as he was beaten to death on a street in Memphis.
Ten miles south of my job at the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, an Asian American elder opened fire and killed one person at the Taiwanese Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, CA.
Faye Rogers, associate professor of therapeutic radiology, was appointed associate cancer center director for DEI at Yale Cancer Center.
S2302 Pragmatica-Lung is a federally-funded, streamlined clinical trial examining a new combination of agents in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Like most studies, it is focused on improving outcomes for patients with cancer—but it is also poised to simplify and transform the entire clinical trials model as we know it.
The Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University received a five-year $1.34 million Science Education Partnership Award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the Office of Data Science Strategy at NIH to investigate whether problem-based learning will more effectively help to increase diversity in the biomedical research workforce and reduce health disparities.
Don S. Dizon has been named the inaugural vice chair for diversity, equity, inclusion, and professional integrity with the SWOG Cancer Research Network.
As Ben Ho Park sees it, the mission of a cancer researcher doesn’t stop at the water’s edge. It follows that Park’s new role as director of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is inseparable from his role as an executive of the Global Cancer Institute, a nonprofit that works with healthcare providers in low- and middle-income countries to improve survival rates for underserved cancer patients.
