MD Anderson’s division of education and training created the journal and plans to publish biannually, with the first issue to publish in spring 2025, according to a Sept. 25 news release from cancer center.
Topics for submission to the journal’s first issue are creating and adapting training programs, delivering team-based education, assessing quality-improvement initiatives, cultivating practices that support high-reliability organizations and patient safety, improving the patient experience, meeting accreditation standards, and adapting learner-centered education programs to new technologies.
Joshua Kuban, MD, associate vice president of education and alumni relations at MD Anderson will serve as editor-in-chief. MD Anderson Professor of Radiation Oncology Shalin Shah, MD, and Research Medical Library Director Clara Fowler will serve as deputy editor-in-chief and editorial director, respectively.
Sixteen members from the oncology community across the U.S. will serve on the journal’s editorial board. They are:
- Brian Bednarski, MD, associate professor of colon and rectal surgery at MD Anderson
- Diane Bodurka, MD, vice president, chief education and training officer at MD Anderson
- Bryan Burt, MD, chief of thoracic surgery at the University of California in Los Angeles
- Carrie Cameron, PhD, associate professor of behavioral science at MD Anderson
- James Cavalier, MSN, PhD, RN, associate vice president of education operations at MD Anderson
- Clara Fowler, director of the research medical library at MD Anderson
- Eileen Hacker, PhD, nursing department chair at MD Anderson
- Victor Hassid, MD, executive medical director of access and business and associate professor of plastic surgery at MD Anderson
- Robin O’Hanlon, associate librarian at New York City-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Monika Shaw, MD, deputy physician-in-chief for education and faculty affairs at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Rahul Sheth, MD, associate professor of interventional radiology at MD Anderson
- Anneliese Taylor, head of scholarly communication at the University of California in San Francisco Library
- Ara Vaporciyan, MD, chair of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at MD Anderson
- Michael Wong, MD, PhD, professor of melanoma medical oncology at MD Anderson
