Career Development

Wilmot offers continuing education and mentoring for fellows, faculty at all levels, and health care professionals, including:

• The Wilmot Seminar Series enhances interaction among Wilmot scientists, physicians and trainees, and disseminates new knowledge from within our community and to/from external speakers. The weekly series is held on Fridays from noon to 1 p.m. via Zoom exclusively, due to COVID-19.

• Wilmot Physician-Scientist Fellowship provides funding for research on the causes, diagnosis, treatment or prevention of cancer.
• The Wilmot Team Science Pilot Program aims to encourage researchers in various disciplines to come together for a cancer research project. 

The University of Rochester Medical Center also offers:

• Continuing Medical Education opportunities
• Grand Rounds

Wilmot Scientific Symposium

Every November, Wilmot also hosts a Scientific Symposium, an annual retreat featuring a day of oral presentations on basic, translational and clinical research, as well as a poster session. All members of the University community with an interest in cancer-related research are invited to participate.

Upstate New York ASH Symposium

Wilmot's experts in hematologic malignancies host an annual symposium with CME for hematologists and oncologists across upstate New York. They provide an update on the latest findings from the ASH Annual Meeting on topics such as leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, benign hematology, and cellular therapies.