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Connie Henke Yarbro, RN, MS, FAAN, is Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Sinclair School of Nursing and Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and Editor-in-Chief of Seminars in Oncology Nursing . One of the founders of the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) in 1975, she served as the first Treasurer (1975 to 1979) and President of the ONS (1979 to 1983). In 1981, she founded the ONS Foundation and served as President from 1982 to 1988. She has served on the Board of Trustees for the Association of Community Cancer Centers, the American Association for Cancer Education, advisory panels for the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Pharmacopeia, and numerous other committees and advisory panels.
She is one of three editors of the comprehensive textbook of oncology nursing, Cancer Nursing: Principles and Practice (6th ed.), Cancer Symptom Management (3rd ed.), Oncology Nursing Review (3rd ed.), and co-editor of Oncology Nursing in the Ambulatory Setting and Cancer Pain Management (2nd ed.). She has published over 80 articles and book chapters on topics related to cancer nursing and care, and is a national and international lecturer. She is Immediate past President of the International Society for Nurses in Cancer Care (ISNCC), serves on the Medical Advisory Board of CancerSource.com, the Board of Directors for the Center for Biomedical Continuing Education, and the Alternative and Complementary Methods of Cancer Management Committee of the American Cancer Society. She has received numerous local, national and international awards. | 