Cancer Clinical Trials Office Blog

News & Updates from the CCTO

CCTO HR Office Hours

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CCTO, do you have questions regarding timecard entry, benefits, vacation time, disability and leaves?  If so, the CCTO HR Office is holding ZOOM Open Office Hours, daily, between 2pm to 3pm.  No Appointment is necessary.  Simply click on the link below and wait for us to let you into the virtual office for a confidential discussion.  There may be a short wait if there are multiple callers are ahead of you, but no worries, we will get to your call as soon as we can!  Looking forward in chatting with you!

Join Your HR Team During our ZOOM Virtual Hour Mon-Fri from 2pm-3pm: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/895250203

Password: 800802

CCTO Staff Update

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Samantha Wong is now the Clinical Research Manager of the Gyncological Oncology Clinical Research Program. She joined the Stanford Cancer Clinical Trial Office (CCTO) in 2015. She is an extremely motivated clinical research professional with over 5 years’ experience in solid tumor oncology including multicenter investigator-initiated trials and global radiation oncology trial. She has proven her grown with increasing responsibilities in complex oncology trial coordination, study start-up/close-out, created new onboarding process in radiation oncology group, training and developing CCTO orientation sessions for all new CCTO staff, etc. We are very excited for her to join our team and look forward to her contributions in enhancing the work and mission of our Gyn-Onc Clinical Research Program and CCTO. Please join us in congratulating her on her promotion and extend a warm welcome to Samantha in her new role. 

Michelle Chin has been with BMT for the past 2 years, supporting very demanding and high enrolling trials with the division.  She is a highly regarded, appreciated and invaluable member of BMT.  Thank you Michelle for your hard work and contributions to BMT and the CCTO.  Congratulations on a much deserved promotion!

Spooktacular Fun Halloween Zoom

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Enjoy Halloween? Still have that awesome masquerade mask from a dance years ago?

We invite you to wear a mask, full costume, or anything in between on Thursday Oct 29th and/or Friday Oct 30th while on your Zoom calls!

We also encourage everyone to send the SCI Communications team photos of yourself in costume to post on our CCTO/SCI social media pages.

We look forward to seeing what costumes you come up with!

CCTO Morning Book Club

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The CCTO has started a book club! This virtual morning book club with Book Movement offers an easy-going opportunity for us to come together, share discussion, and build connections with one another over light-hearted books.

Book Movement is free to join and you can download it as an app or access on your computer. The app will help us manage our book club selections and meeting dates, and the choosing of books.

We’ve picked the first book to get us started and going forward you can recommend and vote on books you’d like to read next. Note: Participants will need to personally purchase each month’s chosen book to read in any preferred format.

  • To download the Apple App, click this link: https://apple.co/2ILdCOd
    • After downloading, on the sign-up screen type in this club PIN: 706f7a

Our first book is “The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules” by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg. We hope you’ll read along and share your thoughts on the book in the Book Movement discussion board and in our book club meetings held every other month, starting Friday, October 30 from 9:30-10am.

If you have any questions, please email ccto-admin@stanford.edu. Looking forward to reading together!

CCTO Staff Update

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The CCTO is happy to introduce Tiffany Tang, our new CRCA on the Pediatrics team! Tiffany graduated from Skyline College with an Associates of Arts in Sociology. She is currently working on her Bachelors in Sociology and will be graduating in May 2021. Previously she was working at Stanford Health Care as a Patient Care Coordinator (Medical Assistant). She looks forward to broadening her learning experience while working at the CCTO. This is her first time working in Clinical Research so she’s excited for all the new things she is going to learn.

Go ahead and send her a virtual hello! Welcome to the team, Tiffany!

The CCTO is happy to introduce Janice Turner, our new Clinical Research Quality Monitor in the Quality Assurance Team! Janice graduated from Cal State LA with a degree in sociology. Previously she worked as a Research Compliance Audit at Providence St. Joseph Health. While working at Stanford, Janice would like to learn more about the different treatments of cancer and one day be able to say that she had a part in coming up with a cure.

Feel free to send her a virtual hello! Welcome to the team, Janice!