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@ARTICLE{Salman:307513,
      author       = {Z. Salman and D. C. Moreira and R. Ul Ain and J. Hoveyan
                      and A. E. B. Resendiz and L. D. Rahmartani and A. Zhang and
                      N. Amayiri and S. Bailey and E. Bouffet and G. C. Chan and
                      A. P. Liu and A. M. La Madrid and N. Mushtaq and K. Tsui and
                      T. V. Z. Ngcana and M. S. Salazar and V. Bhat K and R. Cirt
                      and M. Somathilaka and P. Yang and G. Chinnaswamy and G.
                      Dhall and T. Gupta and R. Jalali and A. Lassaletta and D. S.
                      Osorio and M. Shatara and S. A. Upadhyaya and R. Uppuluri
                      and S. Pfister$^*$ and S. Ybarra and E. DiNovis and C.
                      Rodriguez-Galindo and I. Qaddoumi},
      title        = {{A}n innovative virtual fellowship leveraging global and
                      regional mentorship to foster pediatric neuro-oncologists in
                      low/middle-income countries.},
      journal      = {Neuro-oncology advances},
      volume       = {7},
      number       = {1},
      issn         = {2632-2498},
      address      = {Oxford},
      publisher    = {Oxford University Press},
      reportid     = {DKFZ-2026-00018},
      pages        = {vdaf229},
      year         = {2025},
      abstract     = {BackgroundMost children with central nervous system (CNS)
                      tumors reside in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs),
                      with limited availability of trained pediatric
                      neuro-oncologists.Using a series of structured interviews of
                      physicians who had served as global mentors or mentees in
                      pediatric oncology, we identified mentorship, leadership,
                      and clinical training as key components necessary to
                      virtually train pediatric oncologists in LMICs to become
                      leading pediatric neuro-oncologists while they remain in
                      their home countries. Thus, the St Jude Global Virtual
                      Pediatric Neuro-oncology Fellowship (VPNOF) was designed to
                      incorporate mentorship with global and loco-regional mentors
                      to aid in each fellow's career and institutional goal
                      setting and clinical training involving virtual tumor boards
                      and didactics and ad-hoc case discussions, enabling fellows
                      to manage patients at their home institution. Fellows
                      traveled to their mentors' institutions twice for four-week
                      clinical rotations.In 2022 and 2023, eleven fellows were
                      selected, representing 10 LMICs. The 2-year fellowship led
                      to the establishment of multi-disciplinary approaches,
                      increased patient volume, increased use of evidence-based
                      practices, 33 abstract presentations, and publication of
                      four journal articles.The VPNOF is an innovative approach
                      leveraging global mentorship to train pediatric oncologists
                      in resource-limited settings to become pediatric
                      neuro-oncologists, which has led to the successful
                      implementation of new practice paradigms to improve the
                      quality of care for children with CNS tumors in LMICs.},
      keywords     = {CNS tumors (Other) / capacity building (Other) / low- and
                      middle-income countries (Other) / neuro-oncology (Other) /
                      pediatric (Other) / virtual fellowship (Other)},
      cin          = {B062 / HD01},
      ddc          = {610},
      cid          = {I:(DE-He78)B062-20160331 / I:(DE-He78)HD01-20160331},
      pnm          = {312 - Funktionelle und strukturelle Genomforschung
                      (POF4-312)},
      pid          = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-312},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
      pubmed       = {pmid:41473741},
      pmc          = {pmc:PMC12746595},
      doi          = {10.1093/noajnl/vdaf229},
      url          = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/307513},
}