"Spotlight on Advanced Practice Providers (NPs & PAs)" with Tiffany Valone

ABOUT THIS EPISODE

Neuroendocrine cancer care typically involves a multidisciplinary team which sometimes involves an Advanced Practice Provider (APP). In this episode, Moffitt Physician Assistant Tiffany Valone clarifies the role of an APP in neuroendocrine cancer.

TOP TEN QUESTIONS 

1. What is a NP/PA/APP? -Are you a doctor? How are you different from or similar to a doctor? - How is your role similar to or different from a nurse practitioner? 
2. How did you enter the neuroendocrine cancer or NET world? How did you learn about neuroendocrine cancer? Could you be considered a NET expert? 
3. What is your role in the neuroendocrine cancer world? What is your role with your medical team? 
4. If I go to your institution to see a neuroendocrine cancer expert, how is it determined which provider I will see?
5. If I see you (or another NP/PA), would I also see a doctor? If yes, when/how? If not, why/why not and how does this work? What does a “team approach” mean?
6. Who goes over scan results? Is this something you can do?
7. Who orders my scans and treatments?
8. If I have a question or concern, who do I communicate with and what’s the best way to communicate?
9. How are your recommendations communicated with someone’s local oncologist?
10. What advice do you have for patients when they receive differing opinions?

*Bonus: How do you continue to learn and keep up to date with neuroendocrine cancer? What recommendations would you have for patients who would like to encourage their local oncologists or APPs to learn about neuroendocrine cancer?

ABOUT TIFFANY VALONE

Tiffany Valone is a Physician Assistant and Manager of the GI and Senior Adult Advanced Practice Providers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. She started her career at Moffitt in 2006 in GI medical oncology focusing on treating patients with colorectal and pancreaticobiliary cancers. A few years into her career she joined Dr. Jonathan Strosberg to help with his growing neuroendocrine practice.  For the past 16 years she has been an integral provider within this multidisciplinary team.  She was awarded Moffitt’s Advanced Practice Provider of the Year in 2012 and the North American Neuroendocrine Tumor Society’s AHP/APP of the Year in 2024. She is also a member of Moffitt's APP Professional Clinical Ladder Executive Committee and spearheads Moffitt’s APP Grand Rounds lecture series. She has a passion for teaching and mentoring new providers in the NET field. She has given presentations on NETs and other GI malignancies at both state and national conferences. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling with her husband and three children or relaxing at the beach.  

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