A Columbia nurse scientist shares her takeaways from the 2026 ASCO Quality Care Symposium, from geriatric assessment to care across the age span.
|Articles|April 15, 2019
Honoring an Extraordinary Hero
Author(s)Brielle Benyon
Hear from the winner of the 2019 Extraordinary Healer award.
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For this month's episode of the CURE Talks Cancer Podcast: Nursing Edition, we'll hear from Caitlin Cohen, M.S.N., RN, CPNP-AC, CPHON, a nurse practitioner at the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital, in Illinois. Cohen was given the 2019 Extraordinary Healer Award in Oncology Nursing.
From ensuring that her patients have the fuel they need to heal to always providing emotional support, Cohen goes above and beyond to ensure the best possible care for patients and their families.
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