Oncology, Primary Care
Dr. O’Brien is a Family Nurse Practitioner and an Advanced Oncology Certified Nurse Practitioner. Her clinical practice is at Northwestern Medicine in the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center. She has a further clinical focus in patients with Gastrointestinal malignancies. She has acted as Chair of the Nursing Committee for the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group for over 10 years, and participates in clinical trial research in GI malignancies as well as symptom management.
Her primary teaching responsibilities include Adult Management in the Doctor of Nursing Practice program as well as Health Assessment for the DNP programs. She speaks locally and nationally on topics of gastrointestinal malignancies.