People Group Archives: Cancer / Oncology

Kaylee Nettles is a double alumna of UCF with clinical expertise in bone marrow transplant and perianesthesia care. Prior to joining UCF as faculty member, she worked as a bone marrow transplant registered nurse at AdventHealth Orlando and a pre-op/PACU registered nurse at Orlando Regional Medical Center. She has a passion for the field of […]

Assistant Professor Jennifer Crook is a nationally recognized nutritional epidemiologist and nurse scientist whose work investigates how nutritional insecurity becomes biologically embedded to drive inflammation, symptom burden and cancer disparities. Her research integrates omics‑based biomarkers, nutritional epidemiology and community‑engaged methods to develop clinically actionable tools that advance cancer outcomes. In a previous faculty role at […]

Older adults; Cancer; Symptom management and experience; Representation of symptoms and illness; Quality of life; Technology-based interventions; Nursing student and lay person knowledge of cancer and end of life issues.

Improving care and treatment for patients with cancer.

Health risk and provider attitudes towards people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered, including HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, anorectal cancer, substance abuse, mental health, workplace discrimination, and social inequity.