Linda Abbott has been an oncology advanced practice nurse in the Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Iowa Healthcare since 1993. In this role, she has served as an oncology educator for staff within and outside of the cancer center, and has developed a phased oncology nursing education program that spans the first year of a new nurse’s career. She coordinated evidence-based practice nursing activities within the cancer center and enjoys mentoring graduate students from the University of Iowa in their academic projects.
Abbott has been an adjunct faculty member at the University of Iowa College of Nursing since 2000. She also serves as the director of the Transitions of Care Teams for the CMS Innovations in Care at the University of Iowa Healthcare, which has established teams of care providers that partner with rural care providers where UIHC network critical access hospitals reside. The program focuses on patients who have been admitted for mental health conditions or to internal medicine services, including oncology services. Abbott develops associated education materials, from a curriculum on case management
... Read moreNancy Surya Absolon is a full time oncology nurse currently practicing in the Radiation Therapy Program at the British Columbia Cancer Agency, Vancouver Centre. She has 8 years experience in both the Radiation and Systemic Therapy Ambulatory Care setting, and more than 13 years experience in the Clinical Neurosciences as a staff nurse and research nurse coordinator. She has a lifelong interest in the complementary therapies and has also been teaching meditation techniques for more than 12 years in Canada and abroad. Absolon has a passion in her daily clinical practice for assessing and managing
... Read moreDr. Yuki Asakura has more than 20 years of nursing experience in oncology and bone marrow transplant. She earned her PhD from the University of Colorado in 2013. The focus of her master's and doctoral degrees was palliative care for oncology patients. She has specialized knowledge in ethics, palliative care, and quality of life, and has teaching experience in research methods, statistics, quality improvement, and ethics. Asakura actively serves as research committee chair and communication committee chair for the Metro Denver ONS Chapter, and frequently lectures to Japanese faculty, nursing administrators
... Read moreMonica Beck is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama College of Nursing, where she teaches basic oncology. Her nursing career spans 26 years, including 8 years in radiation oncology and 2 years in hospice care.For the past 10 years, she has been a member of ONS and the Oncology Nurses of North Alabama, and has maintained her oncology nursing certification. Her poem, “The Diagnosis,” was published in the February 2014 issue of Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing. She and her husband are very proud of their three daughters, two of which pursued a nursing career.
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Mary Brandsema has 20 years of staff nursing experience in oncology and has been a clinical educator since 2011. In her years at the bedside, managing infusion reactions has been a continual challenge—so she and her colleagues have marshaled the evidence and developed a solution to this clinical issue.
Brandsema has served as an approved educator for the ONS Chemotherapy Biotherapy Provider course and as President of her local ONS Chapter for two terms. She is an active member of the ONS Neutropenia and Chemotherapy Special Interest Groups. She is a clinical educator for the inpatient an
... Read moreDr. Jeannine M. Brant is an oncology clinical nurse specialist, pain consultant, and nurse scientist for Billings Clinic in Montana. Her repertoire blends her clinical expertise in pain and symptom management with her program of research on improving patient symptoms and nursing-sensitive indicators that lead to quality nursing and interdisciplinary care. Her current studies include investigating opioid-induced oversedation in hospitalized patients, testing a complex symptoms model, and investigating novel software to improve cancer survivorship care. She was recently a co-investigator on a study
... Read moreKatherine Brown-Saltzman lectures and publishes internationally on ethics, professional self-care, bereavement, spirituality, psychosocial care, and cultural issues. She is the co-founder of the UCLA Ethics Center, co-chair of the UCLA Medical Center’s Ethics committee, and co-developer of a two-year clinical ethics fellowship for those with advanced degrees in bioethics. Having received research grants from ONS, Sigma Theta Tau, and the National Institutes of Health, she investigates early indicators and risk factors in ethical issues.
Brown-Saltzman is the founder of a non-profit that h
... Read moreAnn Collins-Hattery is a clinical nurse specialist for Oncology University with more than 25 years of oncology experience. Her diverse roles in oncology include Director of the Cancer Program at a major hospital, Director of Nursing for Texas Oncology, Nurse Practitioner in a community oncology practice, Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist, Nurse Consultant, National Nurse Manager, Clinical Instructor, and Assistant Professor. She has published and co-authored numerous chapters and papers and has presented a variety of oncology-focused programs at local, national and international oncology meetings
... Read moreStacie Corcoran is the Nurse Leader for the Survivorship Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), where she manages multiple nurse practitioner-led clinics throughout the institution. She has presented nationally on survivorship models of care and long-term and late effects associated with cancer treatment. A graduate of William Paterson University and Columbia University, Corcoran has spent her entire career in oncology nursing. Prior to joining the Survivorship Program in 2010, she was the clinical nurse specialist within ambulatory adult lymphoma services at MSKCC.
Full d... Read morePenny Daugherty has served as the Gynecologic Oncology Nurse Navigator at Northside Hospital Cancer Institute in Atlanta, GA, for four years. Previously, she was the Clinical Research Director of Southeastern Gynecologic Oncology for nine years, where she managed investigator-initiated trials and also worked with Gynecologic Oncology Group and pharmaceutical trials. Gynecologic oncology is her passion.
Daugherty has been active in ONS since 1993 and served as president of the Metro Atlanta ONS Chapter in 2003. She is a founding member of Cancer Patient Navigators of Georgia and a member of th
... Read moreAs the Lead Oncology Nurse Navigator at Penrose Cancer Center in Colorado Springs, Judith DeGroot oversees the development and implementation of a large navigation program which spans breast cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, head and neck cancer, lung nodule, thoracic, and malignant hematology units. The oncology nurse navigators she manages work with patients from private practice oncology groups (medical and radiation) and surgical practice, helping to provide seamless care throughout the cancer trajectory. DeGroot has held a variety of nursing positions, including staff nurse, unit manager, director
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