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Nkeiru Abovwe, AGACNP-BC
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BioNkeiru Abovwe, AGACNP-BC is a board certified advanced practice provider on the cardiothoracic surgical team at Stanford Healthcare. She graduated with her Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner (AGACNP) degree from Columbia University. Her area of clinical practice is in post-operative care of patients with Mechanical Circulatory Support devices & Heart Transplant patients.
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Jessica Aikin
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BioJessica received her Master’s Degree in Physician Assistant Studies in Boston at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Science. She has a background in Pain Management with a current focus on Neurosurgical Spinal Disorders and Complex Spine.
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Taylor Anne Aldridge, PA-C, MMS
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BioTaylor Aldridge, PA-C, MMS, is an Advanced Practice Provider with GI Surgical Oncology and Hepatobiliary Pancreas Surgery with Stanford Healthcare. She graduated with her Physician Assistant (PA-C) and Master of Medical Science degree from Midwestern University in 2012.
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Catherine Arima
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BioCate Arima graduated from the Family Nurse Practitioner program at UCSF in 2007. She joined Stanford Urology in 2015. She greatly enjoys connecting with her patients in a meaningful way and values an integrative approach in caring for her patients. She is currently a Fellow in the Andrew Weil Integrative Medicine Fellowship program and a recipient of the Andrew Weil Integrative Medicine Scholarship. With her education she hopes to continue to support her patients by empowering them to incorporate integrative practices with their traditional western approaches to medicine and care.
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Nicole Barr
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BioNicole Barr is dually licensed as a Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychotherapist (LMFT.) She has training and clinical experience in Medical Oncology, particularly in Breast Cancer and Lymphoma. She worked for more than a decade, clinically and as a sub-investigator on a number of clinical trials in lymphoma. She subsequently earned a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and pursued licensure as a Psychotherapist. She helped to develop and now works in the Psychosocial Oncology Program at the Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center. She teaches and lectures in graduate training programs for both psychotherapists and advanced practice providers as well as speaking and providing educational programs for patients and caregivers. She also maintains a private practice focusing on couples and family counseling.
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Zoya Benjamin
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BioZoya Benjamin, PA is a physician assistant who specializes in head and neck cancer.
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Vania Bernatsky
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BioVania graduated with her Acute Care Nurse Practitioner with a minor in Education in 2001 from UCSF. She came to Stanford Neurosurgery in 2012. She initially focused on complex neursorugical spine conditions. Since 2016 she has worked in the Santa Cruz Satelitte Center inpatient and out patient care. Her Inpatient duties include consult, examination, admission, operation planning and assist, inpatient management including patients in critical care, (managing drains, EVD), medication adjustment, lab and radiology ordering, review and interpretation, discharges, patient education. Vania's outpatient duties include consult, operation planning and assist, examination, symptom and medication management, lab and radiology ordering, review, interpretation, and patient education. She is a Certified Neurosurgical Registered Nurse, has completed her RNFA and Neuroscience Emergency Life support, as well as a Hemisphere 2.0 Stroke competency Series. She is Certified in Plant-Based nutrition. She has lectured on Neurosurgical topic regionally, nationally, and internationally.
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Sarah Betts MSN, BSN, ACNPC-AG, CCRN, SANE
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BioSarah Betts, MSN, BSN, ACNPC-AG, CCRN, SANE, is the Lead Advanced Practice Provider in the Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit. A Bay Area native she studied classical voice performance and was a professional stage manager-turned-event manager prior to transitioning to a career in nursing. She earned both her Bachelor and Master of Nursing degrees from Georgetown University in Washington DC, and worked at the VA Palo Alto prior to joining the CVICU team at Stanford. Desiring more education in Palliative Medicine, she worked on the in-patient Palliative Medicine team where she enjoyed focusing on each patient’s unique experience of what quality of life means, and working towards making sure the care they get aligns with their values and what’s important in their lives. She transitioned to the Lead APP in the MICU in 2020 where she is able to combine her critical and palliative care experience to provide holistic and timely care to critically ill patients during some of the hardest moments in their lives.
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Heather Boulting, MSN, RN, ACNPC-AG
Thoracic Surgery Nurse Practitioner, IT Services
BioHeather Boulting, MSN, RN, ACNP-BC is a Nurse Practitioner with thoracic surgical oncology, specializing in benign and malignant conditions in the lung, chest wall, esophagus and mediastinum. Prior to joining Stanford, she worked as a Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Nurse Practitioner, in a busy level II trauma center. Her early career was focused on emergency medicine with Heather spending seven years working pre-hospital as an Emergency Medical Technician on a 9-1-1 ambulance, followed by eight years as a trauma and emergency department RN.
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Vanessa Brown
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BioVanessa K. Brown MSN, AGNP-C is a board certified Nurse Practitioner in the Anesthesia Preoperative Evaluation Clinic at Stanford Healthcare. She completed her bachelors and masters at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She holds a national certification with the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.
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Kelly Bugos MS, RN, ANP-BC, AOCNP
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Current Role at StanfordNurse Practitioner
Manager for Center for Advanced Practice
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May N. Cao, NP
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BioMay N. Cao, MSN, RN, AGPCNP-BC is a nurse practitioner at Stanford Health Care and has been practicing for over 6 years in the specialty of Oncology. She graduated with her Nurse Practitioner degree from Yale University School of Nursing. Her area of clinical practice is with adults who have lymphoma.
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Manuel Cardenas-Contreras
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BioManuel Cardenas-Contreras, PA is a physician assistant who specializes in orthopedics.
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Brenda Castolo
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BioBrenda Castolo, NP is a nurse practitioner at Stanford Health Care's Emergency Department Clinical Decision Unit (CDU).
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Rebecca A. Castro
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BioRebecca Castro, NP is a nurse practitioner at Stanford Health Care. She received both her undergraduate and graduate nursing education at the University of California, San Francisco.
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V. Alex Chadwick, NP, MS, RN, AGACNP-BC
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BioAlex Chadwick, NP, MS, RN, AGACNP-BC is a palliative medicine nurse practitioner. They graduated with an Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner degree from the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing. Their previous area of clinical practice was as a Head and Neck Oncology advanced practice provider.
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Zoe Chan
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BioZoe Chan, PA is a physician assistant at Stanford Health Care's Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
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Ada Cheng, DMSc, PA-C
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BioAda Cheng, PA-C, DMSc is a physician assistant at Stanford Health Care's Emergency Department & Clinical Decision Unit (CDU). She has finished her fellowship in Emergency Medicine and completed her Doctor of Medical Science degree with education in executive leadership, health care law, global health, and research application.
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Joanne Chien, MSN, RN, GNP-BC
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BioJoanne is born and raised in Taiwan, bilingual in Mandarin and English, graduated with Masters of Science in Nursing with Gerontological Nurse Practitioner degree from University of California, San Francisco in 2008. She worked as a RN for 5 years on a Medical-Surgical unit at Stanford, and has worked as a Nurse Practitioner since 2010 with the first 4 years at the Community Living Center at VA Livermore and Menlo Park, and returned to Stanford working as a NP since 2014 in Urologic Medical Oncology specializing in treating urologic cancers, managing treatment related side effects and participating in clinical trials as a sub-investigator. Her top two StandOut strength roles are Equalizer and Creator.
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Charlene Chow
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BioCharlene Chow, PA-C is a Physician Assistant with the Urologic Oncology Department at Stanford Healthcare. She is originally from San Francisco, but obtained her Masters in Physician Assistant Studies at Oregon Health & Science University in 2013 in Portland, OR. She has a background in thoracic surgery working with lung cancer patients at Providence Portland Medical Center from 2013-2015. She then returned to the Bay Area and started with Stanford Urologic Oncology in March 2016.
She is the sole Urologic Oncology Advanced Practice Provider (APP) at the Cancer Center South Bay (CCSB) and specializes in urologic cancers including those of the bladder, prostate, kidney, ureter, testicle, and penis. Aside from seeing both new and return patients on her own and alongside physicians, she is also well versed in performing outpatient procedures such as prostate biopsies, cystoscopies, and bladder cancer treatments.
Her clinical interest lies in quality improvement. She has successfully completed the Clinical Excellent & Leadership Training (CEPT) program at Stanford, and is constantly involving herself and others in ongoing process improvement projects.
When she is not at work, she enjoys dance parties with her two young children, cooking, exercising, and spending time outdoors. -
Jenny Christensen
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BioJenny Christensen, PA-C is an advanced practice provider who specializes in Advanced Lung Disease/Lung Transplantation at Stanford Healthcare. She completed her MSPAS degree at DeSales University. Her area of clinical practice is pulmonology, specializing in lung transplant.
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Jessie Coty
Advanced Practice Provider, Head & Neck Medical Oncology, IT Services
BioJessica Coty, NP is a nurse practitioner at Stanford Health Care who specializes in Head & Neck Medical Oncology.
