Nizia Alam is a public affairs specialist in the external relations branch of the Office of Communications and Public Liaison at the National Cancer Institute. Nizia is the new point of contact for communications professionals across the 72 NCI-designated cancer centers, providing guidance and support on NCI communications initiatives and campaigns, identifying opportunities for collaboration,…
Hello friends and colleagues! Turning the calendar to 2024 means we have less than six months until we’re together at our annual NACCDO-PAMN conference! Final planning is underway for our 2024 event — May 20 – 23 in picturesque Salt Lake City, Utah, hosted by Huntsman Cancer Institute. If professional networking and growth are among…
By Meredith Vehar, Director, Communications, Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah If you’ve never been to Utah, you may have the impression that it’s dry—in climate, alcohol and excitement. Only the climate part is true. As we prepare for the 2024 NACCDO/PAMN annual conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, our host, Meredith Vehar,…
Hello friends and colleagues! It has been a busy and exciting few weeks for your PAMN Steering Committee! As I mentioned in my last message to you in September, we gathered for a special in-person, weekend-long meeting in October to continue developing the strategic plan we initiated in late 2021. We left the meeting with…
Erin Hayes is internal communications manager at UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. She has been a PAMN member for eight years. What led you to work in cancer communications? Before finding my way to the UCSF Cancer Center in 2014, I worked for an academic publisher, a non-profit focused on public health, and…
By Pauline Horton, Communications Manager, The University of Kansas Cancer Center You’ve been assigned an exciting new project at work, and you feel a bit intimidated and overwhelmed. Don’t worry – take a deep breath and (to quote “Veep,” one of my favorite television shows), “flex that rolodex, pal.” When you don’t know where to…
By Matthew Huesser, MBA, DBA, vice president for cancer research administration at Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center – Jefferson Health Out of more than 3,500 cancer centers nationwide, only 72 are currently National Cancer Institute-designated. If your cancer center is NCI-designated or attempting to achieve designation, the Cancer Center Support Grant, or CCSG, tells an incredible…
Hello friends and colleagues! I hope everyone is soaking up the last few weeks of summer and settling into the new routines this time of year brings. The PAMN steering committee has been busy since returning from our planning meeting with NACCDO and the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City in July. We spent…
Jane Kollmer is the director for communications at the University of Chicago Health Comprehensive Cancer Center. She joined PAMN in 2018. What led you to work in cancer communications? I kind of fell into working in cancer communications, but I have stayed with it so long because of my personal connection with the purpose and the…
By Des Sandoval, MA, Content Strategist at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Drug shortages can pose significant challenges to patient care and treatment outcomes. It is the responsibility of health systems to communicate with patients about drug shortage and how they may affect care. Together, communicators and providers can work to share…