Cancer Clinical Trials Office Blog

This 10-session course introduces the basics of clinical research design, including biostatistics, design of diagnostic and predictive test studies, and required/desired elements of clinical trial protocols. Participants will also gain an understanding of the regulatory aspects of clinical research conduct and oversight, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), and ethical dimensions of clinical research.

Open to faculty and staff. Certificate of completion awarded to those who attend a minimum of 8 of 10 sessions. Classes held on Thursdays from 4:00 – 6:00 pm beginning January 13 through March 17, 2021. 

Register here

This course provides a step-by-step model for how to design and conduct clinical research. Session topics include the following:

·         Getting Started: The Research Landscape

·         Designing and Conducting RCTs

·         Designing and Conducting Observational Studies

·         Design of Diagnostic Studies

·         Qualitative Research and Questionnaire Design

·         Research Reproducibility, Data Management, and Collection

·         Ethics and Clinical Research

·         Developing a Clinical Protocol

·         Running a Clinical Trial

·         Trial Closeout

Sessions taught by Stanford faculty and staff who are experts in the field of clinical research. Learn more

Questions? Contact Course Coordinator, Jessica Meyer MBA, at jpmeyer@stanford.edu

Dear Colleagues,

In an effort to make our Frontiers in Cancer Clinical Translation 2021 seminar series more easily accessible to our members and trainees, we will be using the same Zoom link for all seminars:

Zoom: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/8927817254?pwd=bytJQi9lK2xLL2JIM2JiRVFVeG5iZz09

Password: 377533

Frontiers in Cancer Clinical Translation 2021 Seminar Series – Upcoming Talks for December, 8am Scheduled Time

(Alternating with Cancer Institute’s “Frontiers in Oncology” series).  Below is the schedule for our upcoming talks for December.

December 14^th – “Exploiting the Leukocyte Chemoattractant Chemerin to Overcome Prostate Tumor Immunoresistance: Biomarker and Druggable Target.”

Russell Pachynski, MD

Associate Professor, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine

Faculty Member, The Bursky Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Programs (CHiiPs)

December 28th  –  No scheduled seminar – Winter Closure

View CME Accreditation information at https://med.stanford.edu/cme/rss/fcct

To claim CME credit for a session text in the code –TBA– to 844-560-1904. You have up to 24 hours to claim credit.

View text sign-in instructions at https://med.stanford.edu/cme/my-cme-account/text-attendance.html

Who are we and what we do?

The CCTO Quality Standards on Education (QSE) Committee is a group of multidisciplinary CCTO colleagues who strive to bring quality trainings and education to you. We plan, design and construct the CCTO onboarding coursework that our new hires have to take. We also make continuous efforts to identify the need to update these training sessions and keep the education material up to date.

What are our goals?

Our aim is to continue improving the curriculum that is offered for onboarding new employees at the CCTO and provide a foundation for competency. In addition, we also want to focus on building refresher trainings for continued education. The ultimate goal of our committee`s work is to promote a culture of safety and compliance for the patients we serve.  

Why consider joining us?

If you are someone with at least one year of research experience and are passionate about education and teaching, the QSE committee is just the right place for you. You will get to help design the trainings that will help your newly onboarded colleagues learn about why we do what we do and how we do it. In the process, you might get an opportunity to learn something new yourself and get a different perspective from your colleagues belonging to other disciplines of research such as Regulatory, Quality and Clinical Operations. This may also offer you leadership opportunities.

What will be the time commitment?

Committee members should anticipate committing to 2-3 hrs. per month with committee meetings held twice monthly.

Who do I contact?

If interested or if you have any questions in regards to the QSE, please contact Asma Khan at Asmak@stanford.edu  

Dear Stanford community and campus visitors,

This Veterans Day, we honor our nation’s veterans, including the members of our Stanford community who have answered the call to serve in our nation’s military.

Our community includes 102 military veterans, 46 dependents of veterans and 14 ROTC students studying as undergraduate or graduate students or as visiting fellows at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Hoover Institution. We also honor the many Stanford alumni who have served in our military and continue to serve today.

On Veterans Day, we are called to consider the meaning of their service and to reflect on the liberties we enjoy as a result of their sacrifices. I’m inspired by the courage and selflessness of our nation’s veterans. I am especially proud of Stanford’s veterans, who enrich our campus community with their talent, dedication and spirit of leadership.

As a symbol of our community’s respect and gratitude for our veterans, we lay wreaths in Memorial Court and at Memorial Auditorium each year on Veterans Day. Both Memorial Court and Memorial Auditorium represent the esteem with which our university holds our veterans. Jane Stanford established Memorial Court in 1900 to recognize Stanford veterans of the Spanish-American War. Memorial Auditorium, likewise, was dedicated in 1937 to members of the Stanford community who died in World War I.

In the lobby of the auditorium, plaques commemorate the 486 servicemembers affiliated with Stanford who died in service to our country: in the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

On Veterans Day and throughout the year, these spaces help us pay tribute to those who have served. Today, I offer my own deep thanks to all of our veterans for the peace and liberty we enjoy in this country.

With gratitude,

Marc Tessier-Lavigne
President