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Experienced family nurse practitioner joins PMC Oncology Team at FirstHealth of the Carolinas

By Staff Report, posted 1 year ago
Michelle Hunt

FirstHealth and Pinehurst Medical Clinic (PMC) continue to expand access to cancer services with the addition of family nurse practitioner, Michelle Hunt. 

Hunt previously worked at Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada, where she collaborated with medical oncologists to care for cancer patients actively receiving treatment. She is a licensed Advanced Oncology Certified Nurse Practitioner through the Oncology Nursing Society.

Hunt said she became interested in oncology while working in palliative care and hospice for six

Years.

“My experience working with cancer patients and their families led me to specialize in oncology

and hematology,” she said in a press release. “I appreciate the ability to bring my skills in communication, symptom management and care coordination to the oncology field while continuing to learn from these patients and providers.”

She earned her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Nursing from the Massachusetts

General Hospital Institute of Health Professions in Boston, Massachusetts. 

Hunt will care for patients alongside other PMC Medical Oncology and Hematology physicians

Laura Hanson, M.D.; Charles Kuzma, M.D.; Robert Pohlmeyer, M.D.; Saritha Ravella, M.D.;

Thomas Richard, M.D.; Matthew Scarlotta, M.D., and advanced practice providers Susan

Bazinet, R.N., FNP-C, MSN, OCN; Bobbi Clark, AGNP-C; Alicia Libby, P.A. and Sarah Pearce,

DNP, as well as, FirstHealth’s Medical Oncology and Hematology physician Jeffrey Klotz, M.D.

under one roof in the new FirstHealth Cancer Center.

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