Workforce Development Strategic Plan Goals

Membership Engagement

Recruit, retain and foster an expansive community of domestic and international members.

Research

Support the broad cancer immunotherapy research community.

Education

Enhance the representation of the immuno-oncology workforce and educate the community on opportunities to elevate the entire immuno-oncology community.

Professional Development

Represent all backgrounds and experiences within society funding, speaking, volunteer and training opportunities.

Patient Care & Clinical Trials

Understand and address the challenges and needs of SITC members in clinical practice, and advocate for representative patient access, domestically and globally.

Workforce Development Committee

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Chair
Adekunle Odunsi, MD, PhD
University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center

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Co-Chair
Charlie T. Garnett-Benson, PhD
Bristol Myers Squibb

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Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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Ana Carrizosa Anderson, PhD
Harvard Medical School

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Tullia C. Bruno, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

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Leisha A. Emens, MD, PhD

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Chelsea Pinnix, MD, PhD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

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Avery D. Posey, Jr., PhD
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Workforce Development Programs 

Workforce Pipeline: Early Career Scientists

(WIN) Leadership Institute

Sparkathon

Hybrid and Virtual Programs Increase Access

Membership and Registration Discounts

  • LMIEs
  • Financial Hardships

STEM Undergrad Program

  • 1-day, curated program at Annual Meeting
  • First program at SITC 2022

Travel Awards

  • For ECS
  • For all SITC programs

Fellowships

  • Goal: Offer Annually

Educational Programs at Undergraduate Universities

  • Educational programs at colleges and universities to ensure all students are aware of opportunities in the cancer immunotherapy field

Workforce Pipeline: Leadership

Mentorship Program

  • Partner a senior leader with an early career person during the Annual Meeting to extend longitudinally

Programming Positioned Purposefully

  • Collecting data
  • Website section to feature representative membership
  • Global membership
  • Landscape analyses

SITC Faculty, Committees, Board

  • Ensure representative slate of speakers, committee members, and election candidates

Listening Sessions

Addressing Challenges in Clinical Trials

Landscape Analysis

  • Professional societies, government agencies, Industry; to ensure a lack of duplicity and find gaps in clinically oriented programs designed to address challenges in clinical trials

Collaborate

  • With like-minded stakeholders in academic, NIH/NCI, FDA, pharma based on outputs related to patient care/clinical trials

Crisis in Clinical Research

  • Partner/parallel work with outputs

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