Dr. Marcia Grant is the Director and Professor, Nursing Research and Education, City of Hope National Medical Center. Her primary program of research focuses on symptom management and quality of life in cancer patients. Dr. Grant’s current studies focus on quality of life in patients with colorectal cancer, in ostomy patients, in hematopoietic transplant patients and patients undergoing intraperitoneal chemotherapy. She recently completed by an NCI grant for an Advanced Practice Discharge Teaching/Coaching study for patients undergoing allogeneic transplants and is the PI of an NCI R25 study, Preparing Profesional Nurses for Cancer Survivorship Care. She is a Co-Investigator of an NCI grant on HRQOL in Colorectal Cancer Survivors with Stomas and a Consultant on an NCI-funded study, Enhancing Ostomy Self-Management Intervention for CRC Survivors (R. Krouse, PI). She is Co-Investigator of a grant from the Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society™ on Colostomy Irrigation: Current Knowledge and Practice of WOC Nurses (M. Cobb, PI). She is also involved in research on adherence to oral chemotherapy and implementation of evidence-based practice to nursing staff. Dr. Grant received her doctorate in physiological nursing from the University of California, San Francisco. She has recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oncology Nursing Society.