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Gabrielle A. Zecha, PA-C, MHA, and Aaron Begue, MS, RN, NP-C, OCN: The Role of Advanced Practice Providers in Oncology Care

NCCN 2021 Virtual Annual Conference

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Gabrielle A. Zecha, PA-C, MHA, of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, and Aaron Begue, MS, RN, NP-C, OCN, of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discuss how advanced practice providers are recruited and trained, ways to retain these valuable health-care professionals in the face of burnout, metrics to measure their productivity, and their future role in cancer care.



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