Nominating Committee – Undesignated Member Candidate
Dr. Traina is an associate attending in the Breast Medicine Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, where she also serves as vice chair in the Department of Medicine and co-Chair of MSK Outpatient Operations. She is an associate professor at Weill Cornell Medical College and a special contributing faculty member at Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate School. She is a past chair of the ASCO Membership Advisory Committee and present co-Chair of the Breast Cancer Guideline Advisory Group, among additional past volunteer service. She was a 2016-2017 ASCO Leadership Development Program participant and is a recent member of the ASCO Road to Recovery Task Force, which published learnings from the COVID-19 experience to improve clinical research and cancer care during the pandemic. She has served on the Breast Cancer Scientific Committee for past ASCO Annual Meetings, mentored IDEA award recipients, contributes to ASCO-SEP educational content, and is a supporter of Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation.
Why do you want to serve on the ASCO Nominating Committee?
ASCO is the premier professional organization for all matters related to the care of patients with cancer. As a society, it sets the standard for comprehensive programming around provider and community education, research funding through Conquer Cancer, professional development, practice support, and advocacy towards policy creation that strives to ensure that all have the highest quality, equitable cancer care. For me, ASCO has been a constant presence through my training and development as an academic oncologist and I feel a particular engagement with the organization as my oncology home. If selected to serve on the Nominating Committee, I would be honored to dedicate my time and energy to leverage relationships and recruit expert talent in support of ASCO and its mission. I am committed to the success of our organization and believe that success is contingent upon the passion, advocacy, volunteerism, and enthusiastic engagement of our diverse and talented membership. If chosen to be a member of the Nominating Committee, I would strive to enable the success of ASCO through the identification and promotion of members that have the skills necessary to realize the Board’s strategic plan into ASCO leadership roles.