Pediatric Cancer Predisposition Clinical Fellow

The St. Jude Fellowship in Pediatric Cancer Predisposition offers training in germline precision medicine, which holds great promise to optimize the clinical care of children with cancer. The one-year program provides fellows with advanced training in cancer genetics as well as ample research opportunities focused on hereditary predisposition to cancer.

Requirements

• Enhance clinical expertise in the diagnosis and evaluation of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults with hereditary cancer predisposition syndromes
• Develop a multidisciplinary approach to the management of individuals affected by hereditary cancer predisposition
• Apply knowledge obtained from tumor and germline genomic testing to understand mechanisms underlying cancer risk, tumor formation, and impacts on cancer treatment for patients with hereditary predisposition to cancer

Benefits

• Professional development allowance
• Research allowance
• Personal computer for use during the fellowship
• Tuition assistance
• Dependent care assistance
• Moving allowance
• Employer-contributed retirement savings plan
• Onsite health and fitness facility
• Flexible health and dependent care savings accounts
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (cost shared)
• Disability, long-term disability, and group life insurance