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2024 Mid-Year Meeting

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URCC NCORP Research Base 2023 Annual Meeting Recap

The URCC NCORP Research Base 2023 annual meeting was fantastic! It was our pleasure to host our NCORP Affiliates and investigators in Niagara Falls this year! The science was bold and yet practical and centered on solving real problems our cancer patients and providers face every day in the United States! Oh let’s not forget how beautiful Niagara Falls was on Friday night all lit up with fireworks to boot! See you all next year! Now let’s go get some terrific science done and change the world in the meantime.

– Dr. Karen Mustian

Cancer Care Delivery Research Steering Committee Co-Chair Election

Supriya Mohile, MD, MS will be the new Co-Chair for the NCI’s Cancer Care Delivery Research Steering Committee.

An internationally recognized geriatric oncologist, Dr. Mohile has conducted clinically important cancer care delivery studies within the URCC NCORP Research Base demonstrating the value of geriatric assessment. These studies have informed guidelines, including the 2023 ASCO Geriatric Oncology guidelines. Further, Dr. Mohile leads the Cancer Care Delivery Research efforts at the URCC NCORP Research Base.

In this new role, Dr. Mohile will lend her expertise to assist the NCI in reviewing and prioritizing cancer care delivery research concepts to be conducted throughout the NCORP RB mechanism.

URCC Retreat Recap: Sparks Group

URCC NCORP RB held its 2nd team-building event in March 2023. This session was facilitated by Fiona Grant and Jessica Bronzert of The Sparks Group.

Each attendee completed Gallup’s Full 34 CliftonStrengths assessment, which measures individuals’ unique talents and natural patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving. 

With the use of this framework, we each learned our personal Strength styles, natural patterns, and those of our teammates. 

With fun activities and group exercises, we learned how to implement what we learned about ourselves into our current team structures. 

URCC Retreat Recap: Thriving in Uncertain Times

On the first Friday in January 2023, the URCC NCORP RB participated in a day-long retreat called “Thriving in uncertain times: focusing on ways to bring energy, community, creativity, and fulfillment to our work” facilitated by Dr. Ronald Epstein, world-renowned for his research on communication in healthcare, his writings about mindful practice and assessment in medical education.

Faculty and staff participated in animated conversations, and learned different techniques like S.T.O.P (Stop momentarily, Take a breath, Observe, and then Proceed), deep listening, and reflective questioning.