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Catherine Conahan

Assistant Professor of the Practice

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Catherine Conahan

AGNP-C, DNP

Contact

Maloney Hall 

Email: catherine.conahan@bc.edu

Education

  • B.S., Georgetown University
  • M.S., New York University
  • D.N.P., Boston College

Research Interests

Health policy, Social determinants of health, and Oncology

Expertise

  • Population Global Health
  • Symptom Management
Curriculum Vitae

Profile

Catherine Conahan is an assistant professor of the practice at Boston College, in the William F. Connell School of Nursing (CSON). She has a hybrid role at Boston College as a working NP at a Jesuit high school for underprivileged students and as a teaching professor. At the high school she precepts 2-3 DNP student per day and is the faculty mentor for the students DNP projects at the high school. In addition to her work with vulnerable populations she teaches at least one class per semester in both the DNP and undergraduate nursing curriculum at CSON.

Clinical Practice

DNP at Cristo Rey High School-partnership through BC

Selected Publications

Grossman, J. E., Muthuswamy, L., Huang, L., Akshinthala, D., Perea, S., Gonzalez, R. S., Tsai, L. L., Cohen, J., Bockorny, B., Bullock, A. J., Schlechter, B., Peters, M. L. B., Conahan, C., Narasimhan, S., Lim, C., Davis, R. B., Besaw, R., Sawhney, M. S., Pleskow, D., & Berzin, T. M. (2021). Organoid Sensitivity Correlates with Therapeutic Response in Patients with Pancreatic Cancer. Clinical Cancer Research. https://doi.org/10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-20-4116

Meng, Q., Xie, S., Gray, G. K., Dezfulian, M. H., Li, W., Huang, L., Akshinthala, D., Ferrer, E., Conahan, C., Pino, S. P. D., Grossman, J., Elledge, S. J., Hidalgo, M., & Muthuswamy, S. K. (2021). Empirical identification and validation of tumor-targeting T cell receptors from circulation using autologous pancreatic tumor organoids. Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, 9(11), e003213. https://doi.org/10.1136/jitc-2021-003213

Selected Grants

2021 CSON Innovation Grant project entitled “Associations between Cannabis Policies, Cannabis Use and Patient-Provider Communication Among Cancer Survivors: A Cross-sectional Survey”

Selected Awards

2021 William F Connell Award DNP Nominee

2021 Boston Globe Everyday Hero award

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