UH Cancer Center recognizes community partners at 2nd ACCRUAL event
February 3, 2020
The University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center recognized its community partners at the 2nd Annual Cancer Clinical Research UHCC Accrual Leaders (ACCRUAL) event. Physicians, nurses, and research administrators throughout Hawaiʻi were awarded for their efforts toward clinical research.
“We are unique among National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers in that we are completely community facing. We rely on our community partners to offer the best treatments possible through clinical trials,” mentioned Jessica Rhee, MD, medical director of the UH Cancer Center Clinical Trials Office. “We are very grateful for all the efforts of community physicians because we wouldn’t be able to do this without them.”
Awardees were recognized for reviewing the validity and feasibility of clinical trial protocols, monitoring data safety, facilitating clinical trials, and for successfully enrolling patients onto interventional clinical trials. Their efforts contribute to the UH Cancer Center’s 20BY25 campaign goal of increasing clinical trial enrollment to 20 percent of all individuals with newly diagnosed and relapsed cancers in Hawaiʻi each year by 2025.
“The patients that we see in Hawaiʻi have been underrepresented in clinical trials and we really don’t know much about the overall risk and risk profiles of our patients,” says Erin Capps, MD, The Queen’s Medical Center radiologist, winner of a Platinum Accrual Award. “Bringing these trials to the patients of Hawaiʻi is so important so that we can better understand the disease within these patients, and how to better treat them in the future and develop treatments that are tailored to them.”
Below is a list of the community partners recognized at the event for their efforts in the following areas:
UH Cancer Center recognizes community partners at 2nd ACCRUAL event
February 3, 2020
The University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center recognized its community partners at the 2nd Annual Cancer Clinical Research UHCC Accrual Leaders (ACCRUAL) event. Physicians, nurses, and research administrators throughout Hawaiʻi were awarded for their efforts toward clinical research.
“We are unique among National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers in that we are completely community facing. We rely on our community partners to offer the best treatments possible through clinical trials,” mentioned Jessica Rhee, MD, medical director of the UH Cancer Center Clinical Trials Office. “We are very grateful for all the efforts of community physicians because we wouldn’t be able to do this without them.”
Awardees were recognized for reviewing the validity and feasibility of clinical trial protocols, monitoring data safety, facilitating clinical trials, and for successfully enrolling patients onto interventional clinical trials. Their efforts contribute to the UH Cancer Center’s 20BY25 campaign goal of increasing clinical trial enrollment to 20 percent of all individuals with newly diagnosed and relapsed cancers in Hawaiʻi each year by 2025.
“The patients that we see in Hawaiʻi have been underrepresented in clinical trials and we really don’t know much about the overall risk and risk profiles of our patients,” says Erin Capps, MD, The Queen’s Medical Center radiologist, winner of a Platinum Accrual Award. “Bringing these trials to the patients of Hawaiʻi is so important so that we can better understand the disease within these patients, and how to better treat them in the future and develop treatments that are tailored to them.”
Below is a list of the community partners recognized at the event for their efforts in the following areas:
Each hospital and private office nominated a staff member who facilitated clinical research and contributed significantly to care of patients on clinical trials
Ruben Parado, CMD (Cancer Center of Hawaii)
Ashley Springer, APRN (Hawaii Cancer Care)
Chantel Lee, MA (Hawaii Oncology, Inc)
Lisa Harada, APRN (Hawaii Pacific Health - Pediatric)
Lisa Fuchigami, RN (Hawaii Pacific Health - Kapiolani)
Christi Holeso, RN (Hawaii Pacific Health Pali Momi)
Shawn Iwata, RN (Hawaii Pacific Health - Straub)
Rebecca Ohta, RN (The Queen's Medical Center)
Barbara Andrews, CCRP (Tripler Army Medical Center)
The University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center is dedicated to saving lives in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific, and inspiring hope, by conquering cancer. The center strives to achieve this through research, education, patient care, and community outreach, with a focus on the unique and diverse ethnic, cultural and environmental characteristics of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific.
The UH Cancer Center contributes more than $57 million to Oʻahu's economy through scientific research, clinical trials and other activities. It is one of only 72 institutions designated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the only NCI-designated cancer center in Hawaiʻi and the Pacific, representing a significant mark of excellence.
As part of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, the UH Cancer Center operates out of facilities located in Kakaʻako. The center directly employs 300 faculty and staff, with an additional 200 affiliate members and cooperative agreements with organizations that are part of the Hawaiʻi Cancer Consortium. The consortium includes The Queen’s Health Systems, Hawaiʻi Pacific Health, Kuakini Medical Center, Adventist Health Castle, Hawaiʻi Medical Service Association (HMSA), and the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM), all working together with the UH Cancer Center to advance cancer research and treatment in the state.