Dr. Shereck Discusses Helping Oncology Fellows Find a Career

Evan B. Shereck, MD, MEd, serves as professor of pediatrics, Division of Hematology and Oncology, School of Medicine; program director, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellowship; associate director, Cancer Research Training, Knight Cancer Institute; and block co-director, Blood and Host Defense at Oregon Health & Science University.

She said that, as a fellowship director, she cannot tell her trainees exactly where they should go in their careers. Instead, she wants junior faculty to understand what they are passionate about, then help them figure out how to make that a career.

Shereck's own career started in high school, long before she knew what a peditric oncologist actually was. While working on the pediatric ward as a third-year medical student, she discovered that her teenage self identified the perfect role.