Ashley
Dougherty,
BS
Third Year Pharmacy Student
Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy
Ashley Dougherty is a third-year pharmacy student at Lipscomb University College of Pharmacy in Nashville, Tennessee. She has previous work as a primary investigator in a laboratory studying Topoisomerase II and its roles as an anticancer drug target. She was excited to take a more clinical approach to research while working as a team member in the Vanderbilt Program in Interprofessional Learning (VPIL). Her career goals are to get a residency and become a specialty pharmacist in oncology.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: A new cancer diagnosis can be as financially and socially devastating as it can be medically. While addressing the medical aspects of chemotherapy toxicity is a major focus during cancer treatments, financial toxicity (psychological distress due to the cost of treatment) remains an underappreciated hardship among the oncology patient population. Receiving treatment can pose a significant financial burden to patients suffering from cancer and their families, especially for those on chemotherapy. Consequently, financial distress can similarly have a profound impact on a patient's…