Cancer Clinical Trials Office Blog

News & Updates from the CCTO

Frontiers in Cancer Clinical Translation 2021 Seminar Series – Upcoming Talks

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The seminars will occur on 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month 8AM

(Alternating with Cancer Institute’s “Frontiers in Oncology” series)

FEBRUARY 2021

2/9 – “Dermatologic effects of cytotoxic chemotherapy: updates in pathophysiology and management”

Bernice Kwong, M.D.

Clinical Professor of Dermatology, Director, Supportive Dermatology Oncology Program, 

Stanford Dermatology.

2/23 – “ASCO Updates:  Gastro-intestinal Cancers”

Tyler Johnson M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Oncology

Senior Associate Program Director, Stanford Oncology Fellowship Program

MARCH 2021

3/9 –    “Molecular Imaging in Prostate Cancer: PSMA is Here, What (if Anything) Next?”

Andrei Iagaru M.D.

Professor of Radiology (Nuclear Medicine)

Stanford University Medical Center

3/23 – “Immune Related Adverse Events from Checkpoint Inhibitors:  the Science behind them and Management Pearls”

Tamiko Katsumoto M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine

Division of Immunology and Rheumatology

3/30 – “Ocular toxocities of new generation targeted agents”

Prithvi Mruthyunjaya, M.D., MHS

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology

Ocular Oncology and Vitreoretinal Surgery

Director, Ocular Oncology Service

Director, Vitreoretinal Surgery Fellowship

Byers Eye Institute at Stanford University

APRIL 2021

4/13 – “ASCO and San Antonio Updates in Breast Cancer”

George W Sledge Jr., M.D.

Professor of Medicine (Oncology)

Stanford University Medical Center

4/27 – “Biostatistics in Cancer Trials”

Manisha Desai PhD

Professor of Medicine and of Biomedical Data Science

Associate Dean of Research

Section Chief of Biostatistics

Director of the Quantitative Sciences Unit

Kim and Ping Li Director of Computational Biology

Director of the Biostatistics Shared Resource for the Stanford Cancer Institute

Stanford University

May 2021

5/11 – “Management of Dermatologic side effects of Immunotherapy and Targeted Therapies”?

Lisa Zaba, MD, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor, Dermatology

Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital

 5/25- TBD

CCTO Staff Update

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Please join us to welcome Cristy Miles, who started as a Clinical Research Coordinator with NCTN this week!

Cristy attended DePaul University for her undergraduate degree in Health Sciences with a minor in Community Service Studies. She also attended the University of Southern California (Go trojans!) for her master’s in public health with an emphasis on Global Health Leadership. Her MBA comes from a small school called Urbana University.

Previously, Cristy was a Clinical Research Coordinator in Chicago, IL that specialized in diabetes research and utilized epidemiological concepts to generate new information about their patient population and how to best serve them.

Cristy is looking forward to getting to better know her colleagues as well as, gain new insights into the field of cancer research. Being in an environment that fosters innovation and prioritizes the patient experience makes her excited and thrilled to be a part of the team! Please send her a virtual hello and welcome her to the CCTO team!

Please join us to welcome Erin Rosales, who started as a Clinical Research Coordinator Associate with the Pediatric Group this week!

Erin recently graduated from UC San Diego with two Bachelor’s degrees in Human Biology and Global Health. With her double major, she hopes to reduce health disparities and improve access to health services for marginalized communities.

As an undergraduate, Erin served as a campus ambassador/tour guide for the Office for Undergraduate Admissions, resident advisor and volunteered as a student researcher at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, Section of Physiology.

Erin is elated to join a patient-centered team of Stanford faculty and researchers who are revolutionizing the healthcare community! Please send her a virtual hello and welcome her to the CCTO team!

Please join us to welcome Dan Heck, who started as a Clinical Research Coordinator with the Lyphoma Group this week!

Dan was born and raised in Colorado, graduating with his bachelor’s degree in Integrative Physiology from CU Boulder, and later received his Master of Science in Modern Human Anatomy from CU Anschutz Medical Campus.

Dan worked at the CU Anschutz CCTO for the past two years as a clinical research coordinator where he worked primarily with Kidney, Bladder, and Prostate clinical trials.

Dan is looking forward to meeting his new coworkers and building connections at Stanford. Dan is also excited to experience life outside Colorado and plans to take advantage of all the fun things to do in the bay area. Reach out to Dan if you want to go on a hike, mountain bike ride, or anything outdoors! Please send him a virtual hello and welcome him to the CCTO team!

Respecting Staff Personal/ Shared Space and Belongings

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We want to kindly remind you that though an office supply may look available on someone’s desk, we want you to be mindful about other people’s spaces and belongings.

Do not take, borrow, or use anything from someone else’s desks or drawers. If it’s not your space, it’s not yours to touch. As a reminder, this includes food/candies and items in the shared fridge, office organizing/storage supplies, sanitizing wipes, and writing utensils.

If you’re ever unsure of something based on where you found it, ask the admin team! We are happy to help you check availability of an item.

Thank you in advance for your continued thoughtfulness around respecting your fellow coworker’s space and belongings.

CCTO Staff Update

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The CCTO is happy to introduce Namuun Bat-Erdene, our new CRCA on the Hematology team! Namuun obtained her MD from Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia and her MBA in Health Administration from Colorado Heights University, Denver, Colorado. Previously Namuun was working as an aCRC/Research Phlebotomist at SCCR Stanford University of Medicine.

While at Stanford Namuun is looking forward to growing more in a professional way and get experience with clinical trials. She is planning to work on oncology treatment and drugs to aim to develop new way or treatment to impact the community. Please send her a virtual hello and welcome her to the CCTO team!

New Notifications in CCTO REDCap Intake

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Starting Feb 1st, 2021, CCTO Intake will send automated notifications from the CCTO REDCap Intake system.  The goal of these notifications is to provide more visibility on status of service requests.  Any of the following events will trigger an automated system generated message to the requestor.  The message content varies depending on the requested service:

  • For new protocols:
    • Financial Specialist assigned
    • SRC Meeting Date assigned
    • Regulatory Specialist assigned
    • Information on Regulatory Service for IIT
  • For revision request:
    • Financial Specialist assigned
    • Regulatory Specialist assigned

Thank you,

CCO-Intake

CCTO-Intake@stanford.edu