SCI Cancer Clinical Trials Office Blog

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

Cardinal at Work Cares Together we can make a difference November 1–19   Our sixth annual Cardinal at Work Cares event begins on November 1 and ends on November 19. This university-wide effort will highlight the many ways Stanford employees are giving back from wherever they are working and living.  Your compassionate acts of giving back can be shared virtually in our Cardinal at Work Cares portal, which will be active on November 1. By sharing your act of kindness, you’ll help Stanford reach its goal of logging 1,000 acts by the end of the event. We encourage you to contribute your acts of kindness to show the breadth of our collective efforts and inspire others to commit to their communities.    Learn how you can get involved

University Human Resources 505 Broadway | Redwood City, CA 94063 cardinalatwork.stanford.edu/CaWCares

https://cctoblog.stanford.edu/2021/10/2430/

Dear Stanford community, We’re pleased to share with you that Stanford will be adding a second floating holiday for staff employees in 2022. This is an additional paid day off for employees to use at their discretion. The university holiday schedule for 2022 is now posted on the Cardinal at Work website. With the addition of the second floating holiday, Stanford will now provide 12 paid holidays for staff employees each year instead of 11. In addition, the university will continue to provide three days of personal time off (PTO) each year. In revising our holiday schedule to include one more floating holiday, a key priority was providing staff employees the latitude to take time off for observances that are most meaningful to them. We acknowledge and honor the fact that members of our community have a diverse array of cultural, religious, and personal commitments, which are deeply important to each individual. While we are not adding any specific federal or state holidays as designated university holidays, the additional floating holiday will allow staff the opportunity to take a holiday not recognized as a paid holiday by Stanford, such as Veterans Day, Indigenous Peoples’ Day/Columbus Day, Cesar Chavez Day and the newly recognized Juneteenth holiday. Floating holidays may also be used for religious observances, days of cultural significance, community service, reflection, learning, or days of personal importance, such as those involving family celebrations. Within the university, we also will continue marking occasions of significance and seeking new opportunities to highlight them for our community. Stanford offers rich on-campus and virtual programming in support of many of these observances, and we will be working to promote the opportunities for our community to learn about and celebrate these important dates. As a reminder for staff and those who manage staff, floating holidays must be used each year by December 31. Employees must obtain supervisory approval for time off, as they do for vacation or personal time off. More information is available on the Cardinal at Work website. Thank you, as ever, for your many contributions to Stanford.   Elizabeth Zacharias Vice President for Human Resources     Patrick Dunkley Vice Provost for Institutional Equity, Access and Community     View the 2022 University Holiday Schedule

University Human Resources | Institutional Equity, Access and Community hrcommunications@stanford.edu

https://cctoblog.stanford.edu/2021/10/2429/