Suzanne McGettigan

Suzanne McGettigan, MSN, CRNP, ANP-BC, AOCN is an Oncology Nurse Practitioner and Clinical Manager of Advanced Practice Providers and Nursing, at the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania, in the Division of Hematology-Oncology. She has been a part of the Melanoma and Cutaneous Malignancies Program since 2005 as well as other disease based specialties within the Division. She also is a Clinical Associate at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, in the graduate Nurse Practitioner program. Through her clinical work, Ms. McGettigan has provided care to patients receiving immunotherapy, targeted therapy, and chemotherapy as well as symptom management and survivorship care to cancer patients. She has been a sub-investigator on a number of therapeutic clinical trials. She has published articles in peer reviewed journals detailing nursing and APP care of patients and provided lectures nationally on these topics.

After graduating from Washington and Lee University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology, Ms. McGettigan earned both her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. McGettigan holds certification as an Advanced Oncology Nurse and an Adult Nurse Practitioner. She is an active member of the Oncology Nursing Society, the Advanced Practitioner Society for Hematology Oncology, and the Society of Immunotherapy for Cancer.