Career Series for Summer Students: Marie Raiff and Andrea Forman

This annual series is aimed at educating high school and undergraduate students who are spending their summer at Fox Chase about many of the career paths employed here at the Center. Each session will feature two speakers, who will talk about their careers and touch on what skills are necessary to be successful in their fields from medical oncology to genetic counseling, postdoctoral research, and more.

All faculty and staff are asked to encourage your high school and undergraduate students to attend. RSVP by students is required as seating is limited. Questions? Contact and RSVP to Amanda Purdy, PhD, Academic Programs Director, via email or by calling 215-728-7764.

Friday July 27^th, 2018

Marie Ralff, MD/Ph.D. Student

Marie is an MD/PhD student at Temple University School of Medicine who is starting her 6th year of the program. She has completed the first two years of medical school and has spent the last three years working on her thesis project in the lab of Dr. Wafik El-Deiry. Her project focuses on studying the anti-proliferative and immune stimulatory effects of small molecule ONC201 in breast cancer. Marie’s ultimate career goal is to be a physician scientist in the field of medical oncology. Read more about Marie here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-d-ralff-489324b4/.

 Andrea Forman, MS, LCGC, Senior Genetic Counselor

Andrea’s work focuses on genetic counseling and testing patients for hereditary cancer risk. Andrea also teaches medical and genetic counseling students about hereditary cancer risk and she supervises genetic counseling interns during their clinical rotations at Fox Chase Cancer Center. Read more about Andrea here: https://www.foxchase.org/andrea-forman.