| CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | |
| Department of Clinical Cancer Genetics | |
| Degree granted: | M.S. in Applied Cancer Genetics |
| Training available: | M.D. Postdoctoral, Advanced Practice Nurse, Masters/GC |
| Current enrollment: | 1 M.D. Postdoctoral, 1 Doctoral Nurse, 1 Masters/GC |
| Number of graduates in last 2 years: | 1 M.D. Postdoctoral, 1 Doctoral Nurse, 1 Masters/GC |
| Faculty status: | 10 Ph.D., 5 M.D., 3 M.D./Ph.D., 2 DNSc, 1 RN/PhD, 3 MS/CGC |
| Areas of concentration: | clinical genetics, epidemiology, genetic counseling, molecular genetics, oncological genetics, pharmacogenetics, population genetics, Other: clinical and behavioral outcomes, health services research, biomedical informatics, medical oncology and therapeutic research, molecular pathology |
| Clinical training fellowships: | clinical genetics, genetic counseling, clinical molecular genetics, nursing in genetics |
| ABMG accreditation: | |
| Financial support: | NIH-NCI funded |
| Application deadline: | Continuous |
| Contact: |
Jeffrey N. Weitzel, MD, Director, City of Hope National Medical Center, Department of Clinical Cancer Genetics, 1500 E. Duarte Road, Duarte, CA, 91010, Tel: 626-256-8662, Fax: 626-930-5495, E-mail: cgcdp@coh.org Jeffrey N. Weitzel, MD, Director, City of Hope National Medical Center, Clinical Cancer Genetics, 1500 E. Duarte Road, Duarte, CA, 91010, Tel: 626-256-8662, Fax: 626-930-5495, E-mail: cgcdp@coh.org |
| Web homepage: | http://www.cityofhope.org/ccgp |
| The City of Hope Clinical Cancer Genetics Career Development Program is a post-ACGME career development program that provides comprehensive, multi-faceted interdisciplinary training in the genetics of cancer, cancer risk assessment, counseling and risk management, and clinical cancer control and epidemiological research to highly qualified physicians, nurses and genetic counselors, to contribute to the pool of program leaders in cancer genetics and cancer prevention and control research. Genetic counselor and nurse trainees are funded for one year and receive a specialty program certificate. Doctoral clinicians are funded for two years to allow for maturation of cancer prevention and control research projects and preparation of research proposals, advanced course work and thesis requirements for obtaining an optional Master's Degree. For all trainees, the training is centered on three main categories of integrated interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary experience: 1) Academic (formal multi-disciplinary course work, seminars and lectures; 2) Experiential (mentored multi-site clinical participation; participation in clinical case review conferences; enrollment and management of patients in clinical studies), and 3) A core requirement of a mentored cross-disciplinary research project. | |