"Navigating the Road to a Successful Career in Cancer Research"

Monday, April 4, 2011
6:30 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
AACR 102nd Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL

Co-Chairs: Dr. Marcia Cruz-Correa and Dr. Cheryl Willman

This exciting Professional Advancement Series Session organized by the Minorities in Cancer Research provided a forum in which students, postdoctoral candidates and junior faculty discussed important career development issues and survival skills with senior established scientists. This event included mentored roundtable discussions facilitated by senior researchers from a variety of sectors in the cancer community, including academia, government and industry.

Thank you to all those who attended this session in 2011 and to our inspiring facilitators! Please use the links below to access handouts distributed at the session.

2011 Roundtable Discussion Topics and Facilitators:

Table#1 What to Look for in a Good Mentor
Lucile L. Adams-Campbell, Ph.D., Georgetown Lombardi Comp. Cancer Ctr. Washington DC

Table#2 How to Get Your Papers Published in Journals with High Impact Factor
Francis Ali-Osman, D.Sc., Duke Univ. Comp. Cancer Ctr., Durham, NC
 
Table#3   Networking Professional Meetings Successfully
Leisha A. Emens, M.D., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD

Table#4 Research Funding/Grant Opportunities: Graduate Student Level
Marian Johnson-Thompson, Ph.D., Univ. of The District of Columbia, Durham, NC

Table#5 Career Transitioning: From Undergraduate to Graduate
Gregory Adams Jr., B.S., Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Table#6 Effective Leadership, Communication, and Negotiation Skills
Shine Chang, Ph.D., UT MD Anderson Cancer Ctr., Houston, TX

Table#7 Survival Skills: Graduate Level
Danyell S. Wilson, Ph.D., H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Ctr. & Res. Inst., Tampa, FL

Table#8 How to Set-up a Lab and Management of Resources and Personnel
Wayne D. Bowen, Ph.D., Brown Univ., Providence, RI

Table#9 Careers in Cancer: Academia
Kathleen W. Scotto, Ph.D., UMDNJ-The Cancer Inst. of New Jersey, Newark, NJ

Table#10 How to Advance from Poster to Paper-Challenges of Publishing in Peer Reviewed Journals
Ann D. Thor, M.D., Univ. of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, Aurora, CO

Table#11 Career Transitioning: From Medical School to Careers in Research *
Steven C. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Table#12 Careers in Cancer: Government
Beverly D. Lyn-Cook, Ph.D., FDA-NCTR, Jefferson, AR

Table#13 Research Funding/Grant Opportunities: Postdoctoral Level *
Anil Wali, Ph.D., NCI-Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities, Rockville, MD

Table#14 Survival Skills: Junior Faculty
Lisa Baumbach, Ph.D., University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL

Table#15 NCI Intramural Research
Mary Custer, Ph.D., and Beverly A. Mock, Ph.D., NCI - Center for Cancer Research, Bethesda, MD

Table#16 How to Balance Work and Private Life
Wendie S. Cohick, Ph.D.,  Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Table#17 Careers in Cancer: Nontraditional
Ricardo J. Parker, Ph.D., Loma Linda Univ., Loma Linda, CA

Table#18 Tenure Track – Research Track
Marcia Cruz-Correa, M.D., Ph.D., Univ. of Puerto Rico Comp. Cancer Ctr., San Juan, PR

Table #19 What Does it Mean to Define Yourself as a Basic or Population Scientist and Live in a Clinical World?
Cheryl L. Willman, M.D., Univ. of New Mexico Cancer Res. & Treat. Ctr., Albuquerque, NM

Table#20    Career Objectives: Postdoctoral Fellows
K. Sean Kimbro, Ph.D., North Carolina Central Univ., Durham, NC

Table#21 Effective Oral Presentation Skills
Christopher I. Li, M.D., Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Ctr., Seattle, WA

Table#22 Careers in Cancer: Industry
Arti P. Varanasi, Ph.D., Westat, Inc., Rockville, MD

Table#23 Career Transitioning: From Researcher to Administrator
Brandi Brandon Knight, Ph.D., Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

Table#24 Effective Management, Communication, and Negotiation Skills
Judith S. Kaur, M.D., Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

Table#25 Survival Skills: Postdoctoral Level
Antonio T. Baines, Ph.D., North Carolina Central Univ., Durham, NC

Table#26 Career Transitioning: From Graduate School to Fellow
La Creis R. Kidd, Ph.D., M.P.H., Univ. of Louisville, Louisville, KY

Table#27 Networking for Professional & Scientific Development
Rick A. Kittles, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

Table#28 International Collaborations
Jorge Gomez, M.D., Ph.D., NCI- Latin Amer. Can. Prog. Dev., Bethesda, MD

Table#29 Career Transitioning: From Fellow to Junior Faculty *
Susan E. Olivo-Marsten, Ph.D., Ohio State Univ., Columbus, OH

Table#30 How to Pick the Right Lab for your Career Goals
Timothy R. Rebbeck, Ph.D., Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

Table#31 Career Transitioning: From Faculty to Tenure
Electra D. Paskett, Ph.D., M.P.H., Ohio State Univ. Comp. Cancer Ctr., Columbus, OH

Table#32 Careers in Cancer: Government
Luz Maria Rodriguez, M.D., NCI-DCP, Bethesda, MD

Table#33 Career Objectives: Clinical Fellows
Maribel Tirado-Gómez, M.D., Univ. of Puerto Rico Comp. Cancer Ctr., San Juan, PR

Table#34 Grantsmanship: Junior Faculty
Carmen P. Moten, Ph.D., M.P.H., and John Ojeifo, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., NCI-CRCHD, Rockville, MD

Table#35 Career Transitioning: From Undergraduate to Medical
Paul M. Weinberger, M.D., Georgia Health Sciences Univ., Augusta, GA

Table#36 Career Objectives: Junior Faculty *
Rena J. Pasick, Dr.P.H., UCSF Helen Diller Family Comp. Cancer Ctr., San Francisco, CA

Table#37 Careers in Cancer: Industry
Ira S. Mellman, Ph.D., Genentech BioOncology, South San Francisco, CA

Table#38 Careers in Cancer: Academia
Duane T. Smoot, M.D., Howard Univ. Cancer Ctr., Washington, DC

Table#39 The Physician/Scientist
Edna M. Mora, M.D., Univ. Of Puerto Rico Cancer Ctr., San Juan, PR

Table #40  New Investigators Seeking a First R01 Grant *
Suzanne Forry-Schaudies, Ph.D., NCI, Bethesda, MD

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