Christa Varnadoe, DNP, MSN, AGNP-C, OCN, CCRP (She/Her)

Director, Cancer Clinical Trials Enterprise, University of Vermont Cancer Center Associate Professor of Medicine, Larner College of Medicine at UVM
The University of Vermont Medical Center.

While Christa obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of South Florida in public health, she worked at Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute as a primary nurse in an ambulatory outpatient clinic.
Made possible through health diplomacy efforts, she became co-director of the 8th Annual National CTCL Symposium that was a joint program between the Moffitt Cancer Center and the National Center of Oncology and Radiology of Cuba.

Christa then worked as an oncology clinical research nurse coordinator at the Yale School of Medicine. During this time she presented in Morocco, on behalf of The American Society of Clinical Oncology, about the importance of the nurse’s role in cancer clinical trial and the importance of ethics in clinical trials.

While working as a clinical research nurse coordinator at Tisch Cancer Institute (TCI), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (MSSM) Christa graduated from Yale University’s School of Nursing with a Masters of Science in Nursing Degree in the Nurse Practitioner Specialty with a concentration in oncology.

During this time she also graduated from Yale School of Nursing’s Clinical DNP Program where her project titled, “The Use of Teach-back During Informed Consent in Oncology Clinical Trials” revealed an improvement in confidence levels with use of the teach-back method during the cancer clinical trial consent process. Afterwards, Christa was promoted to the Associate Director, Cancer Clinical Trial Operations at TCI, MSSM.

Since 2023, Christa has been employed at The University of Vermont Cancer Center as the Director of Cancer Clinical Research Enterprise, and has an appointment at the Larner College of Medicine as an Associate Professor.

Christa has published multiple scientific peer reviewed journal articles. Christa has presented poster and podium presentations at various conferences across the world. Christa has a particular interest in Clinical Research Nursing education.