Career Journey

Since 2010 I dedicated my life to helping the Jefferson Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center become a force against cancer.  With some great leaders behind me I succeded (they will be named later).  I worked my way up from admin assistant to the Medical Oncology Chair Dr Neal Flomenberg (Amazing Leader and friend) for 2 years, on to the clinic for the next 5 years as the program manager for the Infusion Center.  I loved the clinic interacting daily with the patients and nurses I was truly blessed.  Then I took a paid internship with a company to get international experience which really opened my eyes to international healthcare.  When that was complete I returned to the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (SKCC) on the research side as an Executive to the Cancer Center Chair who was a faliure and a disgrace and will remain nameless.  When in January of 2016 my life changed with the appointment of Dr Karen Knudsen as SKCC Director under an revoutionary Hospital CEO Dr Stephen Klasko, thats when the turnaround started.    

Highlights

2016– 2020

• 2017 Named the Enterprise Associate Director for Administration for the SKCC
• 2017 Completed my MBA
• 2017 Submitted my first CCSG with Dr Knudsen we had an 11 point turnaround one of the best in NCI history
• Continued to build the SKCC research division as we added new sites
• Took over internal communications/marketing for the SKCC in my new AD Role
• Traveled and built relationships with Cancer professionals worldwide to build the SKCC brand and put us on the map with Dr Knudsen
• 2016 Elected to the Public Affairs and Marketing Network National Steering Committee now called CMCA (About CMCA | Leading the Future of Cancer Marcom)
• 2019 Appointed to the American Cancer Society as a National Stakeholder as a grant reviewer
• 2020 Named to the Steering for all Cancer Administrators for the CCAF Cancer Center Administrators Forum now ACCA (About 3 — Association of Cancer Center Administrators)
• Helped develop the first Community Outreach and Engagement program with Amy Leader for the SKCC
  • Including the first SKCC mobile screening unit
  • Developed community programs partnering with American Cancer Society
• 2020 Wrote my first funded grant, although it had to be in the Directors name even though I wrote the entire grant ACSIRG 3years 360K

2021-2024

• 2021 Earned my Doctoral Degree in business during Covid
• 2021 Named VP of the SKCC Research Administration for SKCC
• Started my first lab studying Social Determinants of Health and psycosocial support mechanisms I cancer patients
• 2021 participated on my first joint publication Assessing the Coverage of U.S. Cancer Center Primary Catchment Areas
• Integrated more sites into the SKCC as Jefferson continued to grow
• 2021 Dr Klasko and Dr Knudsen both left Jefferson
• 2022 Had a banner year writing grants
  • ACS SDOH Grant 250K Housing
  • ACS SDOH Grant 125K Transportation
• Integrated more sites into the SKCC as Jefferson
• 2022 Submitted 2nd CCSG (2500 page grant) first without Dr Knudsen of which I oversaw the process and led the team administratively including the NCI site to follow in August.