PSM Moffitt Cancer Center Partnership

佛罗里达州和波多黎各地理上的接近和大量的西班牙裔人口推动了长期的 庞塞医学院和莫菲特癌症中心努力发展学术合作伙伴关系。这两个机构的互补专业知识为研究波多黎各人和一般拉美裔人口的癌症问题提供了一种协同手段。PSM和MCC之间的互动在过去4年中一直在进行，领导人和两个机构的调查人员之间已经形成了有效的工作关系，并开始合作。已经制定了一项执行计划，重点放在四个目标领域：(1)基础研究，(2)癌症教育和培训，(3)外展，和(4)组织采购。来自两个机构的具有共同兴趣和互补专业知识的基础科学家共同开发了两个基础研究项目：(1)美国和波多黎各的皮肤人乳头瘤病毒感染和非黑色素瘤皮肤癌， 以及(2)“针对结肠炎相关异型增生中SP-NK1R-EGFR的相互作用”除了协同假说的产生之外，这种伙伴关系允许共享MCC而不是PSM的现有技术，并允许PSM利用MCC教员的专业知识开发癌症研究计划。PSM的一个高度优先事项是发展开展由研究人员发起的涉及癌症患者的临床研究的能力，并通过RCMI计划招聘新的癌症教员来完成这一任务。尽管PSM在其他临床学科方面拥有相当多的专业知识，但肿瘤学需要发展，以便成为波多黎各西南部癌症护理的第三转诊中心。癌症教育和培训计划旨在以阶段性方式实现这一目标。医学生、住院医生和教师在癌症护理和临床研究方面的培训计划已经制定。 外展计划最终将涵盖各种不同的癌症预防活动。最初，将使用社会营销战略来确定波多黎各的需求。组织采购核心将通过储存来自癌症患者和波多黎各正常对照的组织来支持研究项目。MCC的互惠好处是在波多黎各癌症问题特定问题上培训医学生、肿瘤学研究员和教职员工，这将增强适当治疗佛罗里达州拉美裔癌症患者的能力，更有效地让他们参与临床研究，并为佛罗里达州的拉美裔社区制定更有效的癌症控制计划。PSM和MCC之间的伙伴关系可能会改善波多黎各和佛罗里达州拉美裔癌症患者的预后，这些患者目前在癌症护理和参与临床研究方面得不到足够的服务。

The geographic proximity and large Hispanic populations in Florida and Puerto Rico have driven a longstanding effort by the Ponce School of Medicine and the Moffitt Cancer Center to develop an academic partnership. The complementary expertise at both institutions provides a synergistic means of studying the cancer problem in Puerto Ricans, and in the Hispanic population in general. Interactions between the PSM and the MCC have been ongoing for the past 4 years, and effective working relationships between theleadership and investigators from both institutions have been formed, and collaborations have begun. An implementation plan has been devised focusing on four target areas: (1) basic research, (2) cancer education and training, (3) outreach, and (4) tissue procurement. Basic scientists from both institutions with shared interests and complementary expertise have jointly developed 2 basic research projects: (1) "Cutaneous human papillomavirus infection and non-melanoma skin cancer in the U.S. and Puerto Rico," and (2) "Targeting SP-NK1R-EGFR interactions in colitis associated dysplasia" In addition to synergistic hypothesis generation the partnership permits the sharing of technology available at the MCC and not at the PSM, and allows the PSM to develop cancer research programs, utilizing the expertise of MCC faculty. It is also a high priority of the PSM to develop the capacity to conduct investigator-initiated clinical research involving cancer patients, and to recruit new cancer faculty through the RCMI Program to accomplish this. Although the PSM has considerable expertise in other clinical disciplines, oncology needs to be developed in order to serve as a tertiary referral center for cancer care in southwest Puerto Rico. The cancer education and training program is designed to accomplish this in staged fashion. Plans for the training of medical students, residents, and faculty in cancer care and clinical research have been devised. The outreach program will eventually encompass a variety of different cancer prevention activities. Initially, a social marketing strategy will be used to determine the needs in Puerto Rico. The Tissue Procurement Core will support the research projects by banking tissue from cancer patients and normal controls in Puerto Rico. The reciprocal benefits for the MCC are the training of medical students, oncology fellows, and faculty in issues specific to the cancer problem in Puerto Rico that will provide an enhanced ability to appropriately treat Hispanic cancer patients in Florida, more effectively involve them in clinical research, and produce more effective cancer control programs for Hispanic communities in Florida. A partnership between the PSM and the MCC will likely lead to improved outcomes for Hispanic cancer patients in Puerto Rico and Florida who are currently underserved with respect to cancer care and participation in clinical research.