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Ms Brenda Nevidjon

Brenda Nevidjon, MSN, RN, FAAN, is the Chief Executive Officer of the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS), a professional association that represents a 100,000 oncology nurses. Her career has included clinical, academic, and executive positions in oncology and general health care settings.  She was the first nurse and the first women to be chief operating officer of Duke University Hospital and has worked in Switzerland, Canada , and Seattle. Immediately before joining ONS, she was a professor of nursing at the Duke School of Nursing and retains status as Professor Emeritus. She has helped develop professional nursing organizations at the local, national, and international levels and served on several advisory boards. She has published and presented extensively on nursing and cancer care topics.  Among her honors is being a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing.