Mentor

A higher proportion of women faculty members in academic radiation oncology treated cancer types associated with the female gender compared with men faculty, according to study results.

Mentoring and being mentored are key to having a successful career in medicine, Wanda Phipatanakul, MD, MS, told Healio.

Successful medical conferences are built on a foundation that focuses on what goes on behind the scenes and provide invaluable experiences for conference organizers themselves, according to Christina Brown, MD, and Shikha Jain, MD, FACP.

American Cancer Society has awarded $28 million in new extramural discovery science research and career development grants to fund investigators across several U.S. institutions beginning in July 2024.

The U.S. has witnessed an uptick in the number of minority medical school matriculants in recent years, but actions to retain and grow a diverse medical workforce remains scarce.

Smita Bhatia, MD, MPH, FASCO, will be awarded the 2024 ASCO-American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Award during the American Society for Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in Chicago.

Women in the vitreoretinal subspecialty experience male-dominated mentorship in training, according to a poster presentation at Real World Ophthalmology.

Every founder and entrepreneur is looking to solve a problem or create something that they wish they would have had for themselves, according to Jacqueline Winkelmann, MD, FAAP.

The contributions Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil, FASCO, FASTRO, has made in the breast cancer research arena are vast, with more than 400 published articles in JAMA, The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine, to name a few.

Arielle J. Medford, MD, is working diligently to further refine individualized treatment for patients with breast cancer with the use of circulating tumor DNA and genomics at large.