SATURDAY PRESENTERS

Nicole Messier, RN, BSN, OCN is the Clinical Program Coordinator/Nurse Navigator for the Upper and Lower Gastrointestinal (GI) and Genitourinary (GU) Multidisciplinary Care Cancer Clinics at The University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, VT.

Nicole graduated from the University of Vermont in 1998 with a Bachelors of Science Degree in Nursing and since then has worked as an oncology nurse at The University of Vermont Medical Center in a variety of roles, including staff nurse on the in-patient oncology unit and as a primary nurse in the Department of Surgical Oncology. She has been in her current role as the Upper GI nurse navigator since the initiation of the Upper GI Multidisciplinary Care Cancer Clinic in January, 2007 and the nurse navigator for the GU Multidisciplinary Cancer Care Clinic, initiated in March 2012.

She has previously served as a Leadership Council member of the Academy of Oncology Nurse Navigators (AONN) and is currently working on the AONN+ Evidence Into Practice Standardized Navigation Metrics Project Team. Nicole currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Northern New England Clinical Oncology Society (NNECOS) and serves as co-chair for NNECOS’s Nursing & Allied Health Professional Advisory Committee (NAHPAC).

In addition to speaking at national conferences, Nicole has contributed to the Cancer Site-Specific Navigation chapter in the Oncology Nursing Society's 2014 publication, Oncology Nurse Navigation: Delivering Patient-Centered Care Across the Continuum. In 2013, she was a nominee for Cure Magazine’s 2013 Extraordinary Healers Award for Oncology Nursing.