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Ishwaria Subbiah: Your most enduring professional legacy is not your CV

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Jan 11, 2025, 16:11

Ishwaria Subbiah: Your most enduring professional legacy is not your CV

Ishwaria Subbiah, Executive Director for Cancer Care Equity and Professional Wellness at Sarah Cannon Research Institute (SCRI), shared a post on LinkedIn:

“Your most enduring professional legacy is not your CV – there will always be others with more papers, bigger grants, higher earnings, better acquisitions, etc. Your most enduring professional legacy is the people you’ve mentored.

January is National Mentoring Month and I for one am grateful for the incredible mentors who guide my professional life to this day. Strong mentors don’t just develop the superb health professionals. The ripple effects of strong mentors touch countless lives and every patient who will benefit from their work.

So, this month (and every month), let’s take time to celebrate mentors, who cultivate tomorrow’s leaders and in turn shape the future of cancer care.”

Ishwaria Subbiah is the Executive Director for Cancer Care Equity and Professional Wellness at Sarah Cannon Research Institute (SCRI). She is also the medical director of supportive care oncology, health equity, and professional well-being at The US Oncology Network.

Dr. Subbiah focuses on reducing cancer outcomes disparities and diversifying clinical trial participation within SCRI’s combined research network of more than 1,300 physicians at over 250 locations in 24 states across the US. Dr. Subbiah is a globally recognized expert in geriatric oncology, symptom management, palliative care, and healthcare professional well-being.

She previously was an associate professor in the Division of Cancer Medicine at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. She is the Chair of the ASCO Women in Oncology working group and the ASCO State of Cancer Care in America initiative.

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