Career Enhancement Core
Our Mission:
The Career Enhancement Core (CEC) aids in the mission to build long-term capacity that fosters cancer risk reduction and control within New York’s persistent poverty areas.
The SoCa Method:
The SoCa Method is the development of a sustainable infrastructure for a social network where the established norms of the network produce the expectation of Entry, Retention, and Progression of investigators in cancer research, advancing the individual and the collective goals of the community:
Motivate the Entry of post-baccalaureate trainees into the biomedical workforce
Support the Retention of post-baccalaureate trainees in the biomedical workforce through our Clinical Research Coordinator Training Program
Encourage the Progression of pre-faculty investigators by providing mentoring to strengthen their position for academic promotion
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Retention:
Clinical Research Coordinator Training Program
For eligible post-baccalaureate trainees looking to pursue a career as a clinical research coordinator in the biomedical workforce.
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Progression:
SoCa Early Scholars Program
For postdoctoral researchers looking to attain a junior faculty position.
Meet the Career Enhancement Core Leaders
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Yazmin Carrasco, PhD
Dr. Carrasco is the Co-Director of the Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD), Co-Director of the Advancing Success and Persistence in Research Education (ASPiRE), and the Director of the Advancing Cornell Career Experiences for Science Students (ACCESS) undergraduate summer research program.
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Jasmine McDonald, PhD
Dr. McDonald teaches Cancer Epidemiology within Mailman, is the Associate Co-Director of the Cancer Research, Training, and Education Center at the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) and is the Director of the YES in THE HEIGHTS Program at the HICCC (formerly known as CURE).