SCI Cancer Clinical Trials Office Blog

News & Updates from the SCI-CCTO

Welcome to the SCI-CCTO!

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Welcome to Aja Macias to the new CCTO Clinical Research Trainer role!

This new role was created to help enhance and drive the educational trainings and initiatives at the CCTO. Aja’s work will initially be focused on onboarding training of new staff as well as enhancing the educational training(s) and resources available for all CCTO staff.

Aja will maintain a hybrid schedule to facilitate interaction, learning and collaboration with CCTO staff.

Aja comes to this role from the CCTO Early Drug Development research team where she was a CRC2 for almost 3 years. Aja was not only managing multiple Phase 1 clinical cancer trials but she was involved in training and onboarding new staff. She has a very interesting background in teaching as well.

We are very excited to have this new role at the CCTO and for Aja to be our inaugural trainer!  

STARR Users Group Meeting 

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Research Technology is super excited to invite you to the 3rd virtual STARR Users Group Meeting scheduled for May 10-11, 2023. The two half days will feature success stories from the users of STARR, both faculty as well as students as well as Stanford’s increasing participation in various National consortia including OHDSI and PEDSnet. Detailed agenda coming soon.

Do you use STARR data for your research?  We are still accepting submissions for lightning talks and would love to hear about your research. We invite you to sign up by April 15th, 2023.

In addition, we are offering the following four workshops leading up to the meeting:

Zoom and registration Information available here. Detailed agenda coming soon.

Here are links to the past STARR Summit content for your reference:

Stanford Medicine Orchestra Concert with Ghazal Jawed.

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The SCI-CCTO’s own Ghazal Jawed will be performing! Come and enjoy the concert on 4.8. 

The Orchestra is comprised of students, faculty, and staff from the School of Medicine and Stanford Hospitals. This event is free and open to the public. Please make sure to register and get a ticket ahead of time if you plan to attend!

https://events.stanford.edu/event/stanford_medicine_orchestra_concert

Saturday, April 8, 2023 

6:30 pm to 8 pm PT

Dinkelspiel Auditorium 

471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford, CA 94305

800 Welch OnCore hours for next few weeks

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Below are the next OnCore on-site support in 800 Welch. You can find the schedule on the sign-up board on the door for the visiting (aka hotel) office (room number: FC358)

Upcoming schedule:

  • April 10th – Juan
  • April 14th – Agnes
  • April 24th – Juan

Please know that the OnCore on-site dates are subject to change; however, we will use the blog and sign-up board to notify the dates.

If you have any questions in regards to the on-site support, please don’t hesitate to contact us via the ccto-oncore@stanford.edu email.

Welcome to the SCI-CCTO

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Aronpreet Atwell

The SCI-CCTO welcomes Aronpreet Atwell, our new ARCA with Head and Neck Oncology. Aronpreet graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelors in Molecular & Cell Biology, she also received a Master’s in Biomedical Sciences with the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Prior to joining the SCI-CCTO, Aronpreet was a health coach working with patients across the Bay Area to help them better understand nutrition, diet and exercise. Prior to that, she worked in pharma, helping to develop CAR-T cell therapy for various heme cancers. Aronpreet is looking forward to learning as much as possible about the wide world of clinical research! She is excited to be here at the SCI-CCTO and is looking forward to building good relationships and helping with our studies as much as possible. Please help us welcome Aronpreet!