Meet Your Team
As we provide infusions, we work with you to meet the unique emotional, developmental and cultural needs of your child and family.
- Our nurses have special training to give infusions safely to children, teens and young adults.
- Our advanced practice providers (APPs) are on-site to respond to infusion-related emergencies such as allergic or infusion reactions. They also help share information between your child’s primary team and the infusion nurses. APPs are nurse practitioners or physician assistants. At all times, one APP watches over the patients receiving infusions for medical conditions other than cancer. A second APP cares for patients who are receiving blood transfusions or infusions to treat cancer.
- Child Life therapists help you and your child ease tension, express concerns and fears and feel more in control over your infusion clinic experience.
Leadership
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Neuro-oncology Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner, APP Practice Manager: Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Infusion Services, Apheresis, Immunology, Palliative Care
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Sheryl Gudaitis, RN, BSN, CNML, nurse manager
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Lisa Guenser-Onstot, RN, BSN, nurse manager
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Leah Kroon, MA, MN, RN, CPHON, nurse practice specialist
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Lead APP
Team
Infusion APPs
The advanced practice providers (APPs) listed here manage infusions for medical conditions other than cancer. Chemotherapy infusions are managed by APPs on the Cancer and Blood Disorders Center team.
Child Life Therapists
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Samantha Collar, MS, CCLS, Infusion Center
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Alicia Sevilla, BSW, MS, CCLS, Outpatient Clinic
Contact Us
For more information, contact Infusion Services at 206-987-5700. If you would like an appointment, ask your child’s primary care provider to refer you.