Deborah Christensen, MSN, APRN, AOCNS, OCN

System Lead for Navigation and Survivorship Services
Intermountain Healthcare
Advisory Board Chair

Deb is the System Lead for Navigation and Survivorship Services at Intermountain Healthcare in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is licensed as an Adult Gerontology Clinical Nurse Specialist with oncology specialty. Deb’s role involves supporting patients diagnosed with cancer, training nursing staff, and implementing processes and programs based on current evidence-based practice. Deb is the published author of the Health Change Trajectory Model, a model for viewing uncertainty during health challenges. She writes for Oncology Nursing Society’s Voice and has published peer-reviewed articles on health literacy and standardization of navigation roles. Deb also co-edited the second edition of Nurse Navigation Across the Care Continuum. Deb lives in the red rock country of Southern Utah and enjoys tending to her house plants and spending time with family and friends in the outdoors.

Pamela J. Haylock, PhD, RN, FAANPH

Immediate Past Chair, Advisory Board Chair
Sul Ross State University

Dr Haylock has long-standing interest in navigation and history of contributing to this evolving role. Beginning in 2010, she co-chaired the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) 2010 think tank to define the oncology nurse navigation (ONN) role, culminating (thus far) with a chapter in the most recent ONS Navigation text (©2020). Other efforts in support of the ONN role include participating in the development of the 2017 Oncology Nurse Navigator competencies document and being a guest editor and contributor to the May 2013 issue of Seminars in Oncology Nursing, which focused on patient navigation in cancer care. She is the coeditor and a contributor to Cancer Survivorship: Transdisciplinary Patient-Centered Approaches to the Seasons of Survival (©2019, ONS). Dr Haylock is an editorial board member of Seminars in Oncology Nursing and the new international, open access, Journal of Cancer Rehabilitation. She is also a past editorial board member and continues to be a reviewer for The American Journal of Nursing. She is an ONS Past President and served was Consumer Advocate to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Oncologic Drug Advisory Committee (ODAC). She was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing in 2011. Dr Haylock is adjunct faculty for Sul Ross State University’s online RN to BSN program. In her rural Texas community, she is President of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) Hill Country Branch, and a Founding Member and Branch liaison to the Hill Country Alliance Against Trafficking.

Cynthia (Cindi) Cantril, RN, OCN, CBCN, MPH

Director of Cancer Support Services and Patient Navigation
Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation
Advisory Board Member

Cindi is the Director of Cancer Support Services and Patient Navigation, Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation in Santa Rosa, California. With over 42 years of oncology nursing experience, Cindi is active in nursing leadership at national, international, and local levels. She was a founding Board member of the Oncology Nursing Society. She has been dedicated to the patient navigation role since 2001 when she established a free standing Cancer Recovery and Resource Center in Bozeman, Montana. Cindi received her nursing and degree from Meramec Community College, a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Lindenwood College, and a Masters of Public Health from University of California, Berkeley. She has received a number of distinguished awards, including the Biden Fierce Award 2018, Oncology Nursing Society’s Lifetime Achievement award in April 2016, CURE Magazine’s Extraordinary Healer Award in 2014, and Oncology Nursing Society’s Distinguished Service Award in 2010 for novel work in patient navigation. She has published over 12 articles and authored several book chapters and is co-editing the 3rd Oncology Nursing Society book on Patient Navigation.

Judy Koutlas, RN, MS, OCN

Senior Corporate Director of Navigation Operations
Sarah Cannon
Advisory Board Member

Judy recently joined Sarah Cannon in Nashville, Tennessee, as the senior corporate director of navigation operations and is responsible for leading system-wide navigation program strategy across 14 HCA divisions with 200 nurse navigators. She works to ensure strong congruence between strategy creation and strategy implementation throughout divisions. The key responsibilities of her role include leading, organizing, and standardizing a quality-focused, system-wide service, achieving quality standards, communicating workflow processes, and ensuring integration of a multidisciplinary team approach. Her previous navigation experience includes development of an integrated model of navigation which included nurses, social workers, and non-clinical volunteer navigators in an academic medical center serving rural eastern North Carolina. Additionally, Judy has experience as a disease-specific navigator for gastrointestinal cancers and melanoma. She has over 25 years of oncology nursing experience in various leadership roles within clinics, hospitals, and private practice offices. Judy has presented at several state and national meetings on the integration of a navigation data collection tool into an electronic medical record with outcome measures and analysis. She has co-authored numerous abstracts that support the benefits of navigation and correlate navigation caseload to patient acuity. She has served as the secretary on the North Carolina Oncology Navigation Association board as well as navigation committees within the Oncology Nursing Society. Judy is a 2018 recipient of the GREAT 100 award for Nursing in North Carolina. She earned her Bachelors of Science in Nursing from the College of Nursing at the University of Cincinnati and received her Master of Science at Rush University in the oncology clinical nurse specialist program.

Jean B. Sellers, RN, MSN

Executive Director
North Carolina Oncology Navigator Association
Advisory Board Member

Jean Sellers is the executive director of the North Carolina Oncology Navigator Association. In this role, she is strengthening support for professional and non-professional navigators across North Carolina. With more than 25 years of experience holding a variety of roles with a diverse and progressive oncology nursing background, Jean is recognized as a leader in innovative community outreach and navigation, focusing on improving cancer outcomes for patients. In her previous role as UNC Lineberger’s Adminstrative Clinical Director, she led the development of lay patient navigation at the statewide level from 2007-2019. She earned her undergraduate degree in nursing and her master’s degree in nursing administration from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is an adjunct faculty member of the UNC School of Nursing. She is an active member of the Oncology Nursing Society and a member of the National Patient and Family Advocate Foundation’s President Council. Sellers was recognized as one of North Carolina’s Great 100 Nurses in 2000 and the North Carolina Nurses Association awarded her the Harriot Flint Oncology Nurse of the Year in 2002. In 2005, she was awarded the Distinguished Alumni of the Year from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Between 2004 to 2007, she galvanized a community in Eastern North Carolina to raise over 5 million for the construction of the Crystal Coast Hospice House. In 2017, under her leadership, UNC LCCC received a $600,000 Duke Endowment grant to expand their model of lay navigation to 11 cancer hospitals and centers across North Carolina.