Mission Statement
The IU Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center will create an expanding community of cancer-focused researchers and health professionals who conduct outstanding translational research, provide excellence in education, and deliver high quality patient-centered care.
We will foster and promote an environment of cultural awareness, diversity, and inclusion as we contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer in Indiana. We recognize social injustices and discrimination exist, and we further our mission by embracing the rich perspectives and experiences that arise from racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, sexual, gender, and religious diversity within our community.
Vision Statement
The IU Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center believes research cures cancer.
It is our responsibility to engage in ethical community engaged research and practice. Community members prioritize individual dignity and mutual respect, and we expect to faithfully promote a culture of diversity, inclusivity, and equity in a supportive patient care, learning, research, and work environment.
Accomplishing our mission requires the entire community work together as stewards of the core values that infuse our collective effort:
- People: Everyone is important to meeting our mutual priorities.
- Respectfulness: All IUSCCC patients, families, team members, and learners deserve to be treated with respect, dignity, and professionalism.
- Feedback: We accept criticism and recursively learn from our mistakes with transparency and humility.
- Integrity: Our commitment is relentless, and we seek to be faithful to it in all our actions.
- Action: It is our expectation that we address and respond to diversity and inclusion in our patient care, learning, research, and work environments and foster mutual respect for diverse cultures, communication styles, languages, customs, beliefs, values, traditions, experiences, and other ways in which we identify ourselves.
- Accountability: We acknowledge and assume responsibility for where we have succeeded and failed in terms of our actions, decisions, policies, and results.