UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center Magazine Winter 2018 | Page 34

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Pam Alverson
UA B E MPLOY EE OF T HE Y E A R
Pam Alverson, program director for the Office of
Program Review and Monitoring Systems in the UAB
Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been named UAB
Employee of the Year, the university’s highest non-
academic employee award.
“I am deeply honored and humbled to receive this
recognition,” says Alverson. “To be awarded for a job you
enjoy and working with people you love and respect is
incredible. I am proud to work for UAB and be a part of the
on-mission Comprehensive Cancer Center team.”
Alverson, who was selected December 2016’s Employee
of the Month, was praised for her calm attitude that
provides stability in an overwhelming system and for her
dedication to her position.
In her role, Alverson oversees the administrative tasks
of the scientific review process for cancer-related clinical
trials, interacting with investigators, working groups and
related committees and essentially moving clinical research
protocols through the center’s process.
“She has incredible attention to detail working with
scores of physicians and scientists performing clinical
trials,” says Edward Partridge, M.D., former director of
the Cancer Center and one the people who nominated
her. “In spite of this challenge — akin to herding not cats,
but tigers — I have never once seen he