Clinical Trials at NIH: Health Care Professionals: RN Profiles: Suzanne E. Fioravanti, R.N., B.S.N., O.C.N.

Suzanne E. Fioravanti, R.N., B.S.N., O.C.N.

Medical Oncology Branch
Research Nurse Specialist

National Cancer Institute
9000 Rockville Pike
Building 10, Room 12C101
Bethesda, MD 20892

Phone: 301-594-6544
Fax: 301-480-7281
fioravas@mail.nih.gov

Suzanne E. Fioravanti received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1985. The majority of her career has been at NIH working either for the Clinical Center as an inpatient oncology nurse or as a research nurse for the National Cancer Institute. From 1989-2000, she held various positions in the Clinical Center dealing with medical oncology clients and administrative issues. In 2000, she became a research nurse specialist for the National Cancer Institute. Her oncology research experience includes working with gastrointestinal, prostate, ovarian, and follicular lymphoma cancers. Ms. Fioravanti has experience in working on all phases of clinical research trials and has published various journal articles related to oncology issues. Her areas of specialty are patient recruitment, patient education, and clinical trial implementation. Currently, she is working with a phase III pharmaceutical-sponsored vaccine trial for follicular lymphoma.

Clinical Trials Research

The Medical Oncology Branch (MOB) has the following major functions: 1) clinical research; 2) clinical care; and 3) clinical training. The purpose of these functions is:

1) To develop novel therapeutic research strategies for the treatment of cancer and to test those strategies by conducting clinical research in medical oncology across a spectrum of diseases and disease mechanisms;

2) To provide clinical care to adult cancer patients enrolled in research protocols, including in-patient and out-patient care services, to support the clinical research effort emanating from principal investigators in laboratories and branches across the Center for Cancer Research (CCR); and

3) To train physician-scientists in a laboratory-to-clinic translational research setting to promote the development of their expertise in medical oncology research and to support their board certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM).
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