Cancer Center Culture

The Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center’s (SCCC) Office of Cancer Center Culture strives to have Cancer Center membership and leadership closely reflect the population the Center serves in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Cancer Center Culture aims to:

1) Enhance Retention and Development 

• Define the career development needs of current SCCC under-represented minority (URM)/diversity staff, trainees, and faculty
• Identify URM/diversity potential for leadership
• Implement stakeholder-driven training, coaching, and sponsorship plans

2) Catalyze Effective Recruitment 

• Design and execute recruitment strategies to increase ‘mirroring’ of DFW demographics at all levels within SCCC

3) Foster Cultural Health

• Identify main equity and inclusion challenges and strategize solutions to create and measure cultural health and effectively show the value of diversity and inclusion
• Strategize solutions to create & measure cultural health
• Effectively show the value of diversity and inclusion 

• Office Hours

  The Office of Cancer Center Culture offers weekly office hours with Elisabeth Martinez, Ph.D., Associate Director, for SCCC staff, faculty, and trainees to share thoughts, experiences, and ideas to maintain and further build a culture of openness and dialogue.

  When: Wednesdays, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
  Where: In-person at NB8.104 or virtually with Dr. Martinez by calling her via TEAMS

• Working Group

  Faculty
  Cristel Camacho, Ph.D.
  Miguel Ángel Cano, Ph.D.
  Ian Corbin, Ph.D.
  Alecia Nero, M.D.
  Jihan Osborne, Ph.D.
  Patricio Polanco, M.D.

  Trainees
  Andrea Edwards, Ph.D. 
  Julisa Gonzalez, Grad Student
  Gilbert Murimwa, M.D.

• Partnerships

  SCCC:
  Office of Community, Outreach, Engagement, and Equity
  Office of Education and Training
  
  UTSW:
  Office for Access & Title IX
  Diversity and Inclusion
  Departmental DEI consortium
  Science Teacher Access to Resources at Southwestern (STARS)
  Biomedical Preparatory 
  Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Diversity and Inclusion
  Graduate Medical Education Diversity and Inclusion
  Provost's Initative for Diverse Emerging Scholars (PROVIDES) Seminar Series
  Women in Science and Medicine Advisory Committee (WISMAC)

Learn more about Trainee Resources.

Leadership

Elisabeth Martinez, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Cancer Center Culture

For questions, please Meredith.Woosley@UTSouthwestern.edu Meredith Woosley, Program Coordinator, or TijiJ.Thomas@UTSouthwestern.edu Tiji Thomas.