Tricia Severns, ANP-BC, OCN®

Tricia (Sheehy) Severns has been an oncology nurse for more than 20 years. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in 1995. She returned to Boston in 1999 where she joined the Dana-Farber Inpatient Hospital at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She joined the Dana-Farber Outpatient staff in 2001, starting in the infusion room. She returned to graduate school for a Masters’ in Nursing at MGH-Institute of Health Professions, and graduated with a 4.0 GPA. She served as a Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia Nurse Practitioner from 2008-2103 under the direct supervision of Dr. Steven Treon. She had the opportunity to present at IWMF meetings, as well as WM Summits. She took a brief hiatus and rejoined Dana-Farber in 2015 where she became a Bone Marrow Biopsy Proceduralist. She was invited back to the WM team in February 2016, where she now works part-time in addition to her role in the Procedure Suite. She provides direct patient care to patients with Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia and related diseases.