Nancy Boyle, M.S.W., LCSW

Biography

Nancy Boyle, M.S.W., L.C.S.W. is an oncology social worker at Oregon Health and Sciences University Hospital, Knight Cancer Institute, Portland, Oregon working in the Center for Hematologic Malignancy. She has been working at OHSU for 24 years and working in hospitals since 1977. She has been a member of the Association of Oncology Social Workers for many years and has assisted in founding the Social Work Special Interest Group at the American Society of Transplantation and Cellular Therapy, of which she is currently a co chair.

In AOSW, she has been involved with multiple activities including the Special Interest Group coordinator for Blood and Marrow Transplant. She has B.S. in Family Social Services from Northern Illinois University and a M.S.W. from the University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana. She is a licensed clinical social worker in the state of Oregon.

She has received the 2009 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Hematology-Oncology Social Worker of the Year award as well as the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society 2016 Dr. John J Kenny Award. She has been on many committees within the National Marrow Donor Program, including Patient Advisory and Systems Capacity Initiative. She has been listed on the resulting publication entitled: Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation Multidisciplinary Care Teams: Burnout, Moral Distress and Career Satisfaction. She has co-authored a chapter entitled Social Work: Evaluation and Support in the Blood and Marrow Transplant Handbook, edited by Susan Slater and Richard Maziarz.

Education and training

    • B.A., 1984, Northern Illinois University
    • M.S.W., 1987, University of Illinois

Areas of interest

  • Psychosocial Aspects of Hematologic Malignancies

Publications

Publications

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