Announcements-Upcoming Webinars and Recently Posted Training Courses
This page includes upcoming webinar announcements and links to recently posted training / educational materials. Materials are posted in the SWOG ExpertusOne or CTSU CLASS learning management systems, which require login. Login with credentials necessary to access secure NCI/CTSU IT systems.
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- Navigating Adverse Events: What’s New in CTCAE v6 Webinar: 12/12/2025 | 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. CT
Part of the SWOG Quality Assurance Webinar Series
Featured Training Workshop:
Recently posted Study-specific Training:
Recently posted general information / training for participating sites:
- Fall 2025 SWOG NCORP Research Base Clinical Trials Workshop to view the Workshop in entirety (1 hr 15 mins).
The individual presentations are also accessible via the individual course links below.
- Cancer Care Delivery Research:
- NCI Cancer Care Delivery Research Updates (11 minutes) - presented by Kathleen Castro, MS, RN, AOCN, Nurse Consultant, Healthcare Delivery Research Program, NCI Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
- Clinical Trials:
- Clinical Trial Perspectives, Participant Follow-up:
- Participant Follow-up: Statistical Perspective (15 minutes) - presented by Michael LeBlanc, PhD, Group Statistician, SWOG Statistics and Data Management Center
- Participant Perspective: Recruitment and Retention (12 minutes) - presented by Jamie Sundstrom, BS, Clinical Trials Recruitment and Retention Specialist, SWOG Statistics and Data Management Center
- Participant Follow-up: A Site Perspective (10 minutes) - presented by Melyssa Foust, MSN, RN, OCN, Cancer Care Delivery Director, Upstate Carolina NCORP
- Participant Follow-up: Quality Assurance Perspective (8 minutes) - presented by Laura Gonzales, BSN, MA, RN, OCN, Quality Assurance Manager, SWOG Network Operations Office
- SWOG: Biospecimen Collection and Submission (Part of the SWOG QA webinar series; 1.0 hr CEU available)
- SWOG: Biospecimen Tracking and Submission Training (An introduction to the SWOG Specimen Tracking System and Specimen Submission requirements)
- SWOG: Cytogenetics (1.0 hr CEU available)
- Spring 2025 Jeri and Noburu Oishi Symposium to view the Symposium in entirety (2 hrs 15 mins)
(Note: The individual presentations are also accessible via the links below, where staff can obtain a completion certificate after review of content.)
- CTSU Updates (28 minutes) - presented by Rachel Albershardt, CTSU Product Owner
- Cytogenetics (36 minutes) - presented by Min Fang, MD, PhD, Professor, Translational Science & Therapeutics Division Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, University of Washington
- Deciphering Chromosomes: Cracking the Code (34 minutes) - presented by Rose Ermete, RN, BSN, OCN CNR-BC, CCRP, Senior Quality Assurance Nurse Auditor, SWOG
- SWOG Quality Assurance Updates (11 minutes) - presented by Laura Gonzales, RN, BSN, Quality Assurance Manager, SWOG
- Cytogenetics Q&A- Lightning Round (18 minutes) - presented by Christine Magner, Data Operations Supervisor, SWOG Statistics & Data Management Center
- Spring 2025 Site Operations Meeting Recording of all Presentations (42 mins)
(Staff can obtain a completion certificate after review.)
- Spring 2025 Take Action Symposium (1hr 42 mins)
(Note: The individual presentations are also accessible via the links below, where staff can obtain a completion certificate after review of content.)
- Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Patient Experience- Presented by Allison Rosen, MS, SWOG AYA Research Advocate & Lauren Fryzel, SWOG AYA Community Advocate (24 mins)
- Financial toxicity in AYAs - Presented by Tim Ohlsen, MD, MS, Acting Assistant Professor, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle Children's Hospital (28 mins)
- How informatics tools can improve AYA retention and data collection - Presented by Kirk D. Wyatt, MD, MAS, Sanford Health (18 mins)
- March 2025 Best of SWOG
