Workforce Development Strategic Plan Goals

Membership Engagement

Recruit, retain and foster an expansive community of domestic and international members.

Research

Support the broad cancer immunotherapy research community.

Education

Enhance the representation of the immuno-oncology workforce and educate the community on opportunities to elevate the entire immuno-oncology community.

Professional Development

Represent all backgrounds and experiences within society funding, speaking, volunteer and training opportunities.

Patient Care & Clinical Trials

Understand and address the challenges and needs of SITC members in clinical practice, and advocate for representative patient access, domestically and globally.

Workforce Development Committee

Adekunle Odunsi, MD, PhD

Chair

Adekunle Odunsi, MD, PhD
University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center

Charlie T. Garnett-Benson, PhD

Co-Chair

Charlie T. Garnett-Benson, PhD  
Bristol Myers Squibb

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA

Ana Carrizosa Anderson, PhD
Harvard Medical School

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA

Tullia C. Bruno, PhD
University of Pittsburgh

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA

Leighton Elliott, MS, MD
UF Health Shands

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA

Immediate Past Chair

Leisha Emens, MD, PhD
Ankyra Therapeutics

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA

Vincent T. Ma, MD
University of Wisconsin

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA

Cristina Maccalli, PhD
Sidra Medicine

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA

Nindhana Paranthaman, MD, MBA
Exelixis

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA

Chelsea Pinnix, MD, PhD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA

Avery D. Posey, Jr., PhD
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA

Luz Maria Rodriguez, MD
National Cancer Institute, NIH

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA

Sandra Smith, RN, MSN, AOCN
WCG

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA

Sophia Shalhout, PhD
Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, MBA

Aleksei M. Tikhonov, PhD
Gustave Roussy

Workforce Development Programs 

Workforce Pipeline: Early Career Scientists

(WIN) Leadership Institute

Sparkathon

Hybrid and Virtual Programs Increase Access

Membership and Registration Discounts

  • LMIEs
  • Financial Hardships

STEM Undergrad Program

  • 1-day, curated program at Annual Meeting
  • First program at SITC 2022

Travel Awards

  • For ECS
  • For all SITC programs

Fellowships

  • Goal: Offer Annually

Educational Programs at Undergraduate Universities

  • Educational programs at colleges and universities to ensure all students are aware of opportunities in the cancer immunotherapy field

Workforce Pipeline: Leadership

Mentorship Program

  • Partner a senior leader with an early career person during the Annual Meeting to extend longitudinally

Programming Positioned Purposefully

  • Collecting data
  • Website section to feature representative membership
  • Global membership
  • Landscape analyses

SITC Faculty, Committees, Board

  • Ensure representative slate of speakers, committee members, and election candidates

Listening Sessions

Addressing Challenges in Clinical Trials

Landscape Analysis

  • Professional societies, government agencies, Industry; to ensure a lack of duplicity and find gaps in clinically oriented programs designed to address challenges in clinical trials

Collaborate

  • With like-minded stakeholders in academic, NIH/NCI, FDA, pharma based on outputs related to patient care/clinical trials

Crisis in Clinical Research

  • Partner/parallel work with outputs

Watch Our Latest Listening Sessions