Scientific Committee

Penny is currently the Gynecologic Oncology Nurse Navigator (ONN) at Northside Hospital Cancer Institute in Atlanta, GA. She also works with Head and Neck patients as well as providing ongoing education to oncology nurse interns. She has been in this position for 9 years. Prior to that, she was the Clinical Research Director of Southeastern Gynecologic Oncology for 10 years where she coordinated and assisted in writing Investigator Initiated trials, and participated in the ONS team to create the first Core Competencies for Clinical Trial Nurses.

She was a co-editor/ contributing author of the first comprehensive textbook on Oncology Nurse Navigators, Oncology Nurse Navigation, Delivering Patient-Centered Care across the Continuum, published by ONS in the summer of 2014, as well as the companion book, Oncology Nurse Navigation Case Studies, published in spring, 2017.